The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 教授与疯子 25周年版 Simon Winchester

基本信息

Format:Paperback 272 pages

Publisher:HPC

Imprint:HPC

ISBN:9780063341906

Published:17 Oct 2023

Weight:454g

Dimensions:203 x 135 (mm)

Language:English

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

疯狂、暴力、神秘的痴迷、怪异的学习、可怕的喜剧，所有这些都在一种充满节奏感的新哥特式氛围中展开。作品的地域跨度很大，从狄更斯笔下的伦敦到佛罗里达的彭萨科拉湾，从亭可马利的海滩到美国内战的战场。.

. . 约翰-班维尔，《文学评论》。

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. . .

.西蒙-温彻斯特讲述得再好不过了。

为庆祝《教授与疯子》问世 25 周年，我们更新了这本享誉全球的经典之作，并由作者撰写了新的序言。

教授与狂人》研究精湛、文笔雄辩，讲述了一个关于疯狂、天才和两个杰出人物不可思议的痴迷的非凡故事，这两个人的痴迷促成了《牛津英语词典》的编纂，而《牛津英语词典》是有史以来雄心勃勃的项目之一。在收集定义的过程中，由詹姆斯-默里教授领导的《牛津英语词典》监督委员会惊奇地发现，有一个人，W.

C. Minor 博士提交了一万多个词条。但是，当委员会坚持要表彰他时，他们的惊讶就显得微不足道了。

米诺医生是美国内战老兵，同时也是一家精神病院的囚犯。

Madness, violence, arcane obsessions, weird learning, ghastly comedy, all set out in an atmosphere of po-aced, high neo-Gothic. The geographical span is wide, from Dickensian London to Florida's Pensacola Bay, from the beaches at Trincomalee to the Civil War battlefields of the United States. .

. . It is a wonderful story.John Banville, Literary Review

Splendid.

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Simon Winchester could not have told it better.The Economist

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, an updated edition of the worldwide celebrated classic, featuring a new introduction by the author.

Masterfully researched and eloquently written, The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionaryone of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the OEDs overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, was stunned to discover that one man, Dr. W.

C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand entries. But their surprise would pale in comparison to what they were about to discover when the committee insisted on honoring him.

Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.

作者简介

西蒙-温彻斯特 OBE（生于 1944 年 9 月 28 日）是英裔美国作家和记者。在《卫报》工作期间，温彻斯特报道了许多大事，包括 "血腥星期天 "和 "水门事件"。温彻斯特撰写或参与撰写了十几本非虚构类书籍，创作了一部小说，并为多家杂志供稿，其中包括《康泰纳仕旅行者》、《史密森尼杂志》和《国家地理》。

Simon Winchester OBE (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to more than a dozen nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.