It tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary and one of its most prolific early contributors, Dr. William Chester Minor. A retired American military surgeon, Minor was at the time imprisoned in the Broadmoor[?] Criminal Lunatic Asylum, near the small town of Crowthorne in Berkshire.
The American edition is called The Professor and the Madman (ISBN 006099486X).
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