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发表于2025-06-04
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The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary--and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.</P>
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西蒙·温切斯特(Simon Winchester)
英国著名作家、记者。生于1944年,毕业于牛津大学地质系。曾任《卫报》及《星期日泰晤士报》海外特派员,并为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》及BBC等媒体撰稿,现居美国。
温切斯特长于描述历史事件,《教授与疯子》《喀拉喀托火山》《改变世界的地图》等小说多次登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。温切斯特凭借在新闻及文学领域的贡献,于2006年获大英帝国勋章。
Intriguing anecdotes of the intellectual who contributed immensely to the OED,yet was confined in the Bethlem,where he still had his life,though this former US army surgeon remains in delusions. Despite contents,the language is largely British and thus harsh to me,but above all it's surprisingly no-academic given that the book is intellectual.
评分事件本身好评,叙事风格大差评。。结构混乱就算了,为毛随随便便就煽情。。。
评分看书名还以为是本推理小说,但读下去发现关于牛津词典的两个重要编纂者Murray和Minor的传记。两个人的人生都可谓传奇。Murray14岁辍学,一路自学,却成为了剑桥文化圈的核心人物。另一个是落魄贵族Minor,一个饱受精神疾病折磨的天才,错杀一人,入狱后以志愿者方式参与牛津词典的编纂。长达二十余年间,Murray在minor的强力支持下完成了大部分编纂工作,并与其结成深厚友谊。然而他并不知Minor是一个在看守所住了二十多年的精神病患者,直到他不顾婉拒终于登门拜访。故事以倒叙开篇,穿插讲述了两人的生平。如果是短篇故事,必然是满分之作,但是作为长篇叙述,大篇幅的背景史料冲淡了故事本身,读起来实在乏味。作者选取素材时似乎并无偏重,每一个背景都力求细节完整,导致整本书零碎而让人疲惫,实在可惜。
评分2017-010 今年第一本五星,意外地好看,意外地动人,也意外地酸楚。数十年如一日默默耕耘的词典编者,可真是伟大啊。
评分Intriguing anecdotes of the intellectual who contributed immensely to the OED,yet was confined in the Bethlem,where he still had his life,though this former US army surgeon remains in delusions. Despite contents,the language is largely British and thus harsh to me,but above all it's surprisingly no-academic given that the book is intellectual.
詹姆斯•默里和W•C•迈纳,一个是声誉卓著的教授,恢弘巨制《牛津英语词典》(OED)的主编;另一个则是精神失常,因犯下过失杀人罪行而被困于疯人院的“疯子”。两者之间似乎本无任何交集,然而正是OED编纂所造就的因缘际会,让这身份地位迥然不同的两人走到了一起,成...
评分提到OED,你或许并不知道它是什么,但它的全称你一定不陌生——OED,Oxford English Dictionary,它就是大名鼎鼎的《牛津英语词典》。作为每天打卡背单词的单词狗,你一定想把它供起来好好膜拜一番,毕竟,OED可是英语单词的至高标准,是其之后各种辞书乃至百科全书的鼻祖。...
评分前两天,我在看钟芳玲的《书天堂》,注意到她提到《牛津英语词典》时曾一笔带过,名为《教授与疯子》的书。堂堂牛津大词典主编,为什么会和一个疯子之间交往20年,而一个疯子又如何为这本历史上最宏伟的英语词典做出卓绝的贡献呢? 过了两天不到,我在图书馆里凑...
评分 评分(旧版的书评,不知道现在文中doctor译作”博士“的错误有没有纠正过来?) 时下很少有书能带给我如此强烈的触动,但《教授与疯子》做到了。这本书英文原书出版于1998年,是作者Simon Winchester最优秀的一部作品,其中文版也是一部翻译很用心的作品。然而,该书初版只印...
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