The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English DictionaryModern · Nonfiction, History, Biography
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1998 · 242 pages · Nonfiction
21
Modern
★ 3.84 on Goodreads · 125K ratings
Critics' pick
≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1998). 3.84★ from 125K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
21Must-Read Score
- Readers16 out of 100 · counts 40%+7
- Critics24 out of 100 · counts 14%+4
- Bestseller26 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+10
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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Where it ranks
- #152 of the 154 history books we rank
- #159 of the 168 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #615 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #1324 of the 1,404 books we rank
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1998)
Reads as
True story
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