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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
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beulah_devaney's review
dark
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Just as entertaining and tragic as it sounds. <i>The Professor</i> is about one of publishing's most enduring urban myths: the time the editor of the Oxford Dictionary discovered his chief contributor was resident in a London psychiatric hospital. It's incredibly entertaining and the sections on the history of dictionaries as a form of cultural colonialism is especially interesting.
Content warnings: as you've probably guessed from the title, Winchester talks about everyone who isn't a white wealthy man as if they were some unique, vaguely repulsive alien species. Stand by for racism, sexism, abelism, and in depth discussion of body horror and self-harm.
Content warnings: as you've probably guessed from the title, Winchester talks about everyone who isn't a white wealthy man as if they were some unique, vaguely repulsive alien species. Stand by for racism, sexism, abelism, and in depth discussion of body horror and self-harm.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm
Minor: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Violence
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