The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the Oxford English dictionary

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Una straordinaria storia di follia, genio e ossessione, scopri la vera storia dei due uomini straordinari che hanno portato alla creazione dell'Oxford English Dictionary - e della storia letteraria! Mentre venivano raccolte le definizioni, il comitato di supervisione, guidato dal professor James Murray, scoprì che un uomo, il dottor Murray, era un uomo.

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