The Professor and the Madman CD

This book chronicles the twenty-year friendship between Professor James Murray, the head of the committee supervising the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Dr. William Chester Minor, who contributed more than ten thousand words to the project despite being incarcerated at an asylum for the criminally insane.

The narrative delves into the lives of these two men, their contributions to the dictionary, and the broader historical context of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It explores themes of madness, genius, and the obsessive efforts that went into creating one of the greatest literary achievements in English history.