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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published in England in 1998. It was retitled The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the United States and Canada.
The Professor and the Madman is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Farhad Safinia (under the pseudonym P. B. Shemran), from a screenplay by Safinia and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester.
The book drew heavily on his experiences of the turmoil in Northern Ireland. In 1976 he published his second book, American Heartbeat, which deals with his travels through the American heartland. [15] Winchester's first truly successful book was The Professor and the Madman (1998) published by Penguin UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne.
Maybe descriptions of a sampling of episodes would be better. My own changes were made to incorporate the references to the book reviews and mention of translations. I wish there was a style that allowed "for reviews see [1,2,3]". I would be happier with the actual mention of the books to be in the list of references rather than under "Sources".
2) Eliza does not befriend W.C. Minor in the book, nor does she become enamored with him. 3) Eliza's children never visit W.C. Minor in the book. 4) Eliza visits only once/twice in the book to discuss/agree to accept W.C. Minor's pension. 5) The film elaborates on W.C. Minor mental torture in a way the book doesn't.
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After a pre-trial period spent in London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated at the asylum in Broadmoor in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire. [10] As he had his US Army pension and was judged not dangerous, he was given rather comfortable quarters and was able to buy and read books. [11 ...
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester.It concerns the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words.