The Strange Case of Dr. Minor: The true story behind 'The Professor and the Madman'

"One of the most remarkable stories which have ever been set forth in print." -Medical Pickwick
"The learning which made him so important in the history of the most ambitious philological undertaking in the history of English lexicography was acquired within the walls of the lunatic asylum." -Current Opinion

Few scholars would suspect that the ambitious work known as the Oxford English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray, was made possible in largely through the learning and genius ...