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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary BOTY_2025 Acclaimed as a modern-day classic"A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is much truth to be drawn from it, about Victorian pride, the relation between language and the world, and the fine line between sanity and madness." Daniel Mark Epstein, Wall Street Journal Splendid. . . . Simon Winchester could not have told it better. The Economist In celebration of its