{"product_id":"the-professor-and-the-madman","title":"The Professor and the Madman","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Harper Perennial paperback of Simon Winchester's 1998 account of two men who made the Oxford English Dictionary possible: the Scottish editor James Murray and the American surgeon W. C. Minor, who contributed thousands of entries from a cell in Broadmoor. Winchester treats the meeting as both a friendship and a collision of obsession and mental illness. The Harper Perennial edition is the standard trade paperback, with the small type and utilitarian cover of a book meant to be read on public transit. Ideal reader: the dictionary user who has never considered the labor behind the definitions, or the reader who likes history best when it follows an unlikely pair of fanatics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48520396898516,"sku":"9780060994860","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780060994860.jpg?v=1787414814","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/the-professor-and-the-madman","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}