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The Professor and the Madman

bySimon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman is Simon Winchester's biographical portrait of professor and the Madman. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and language arts & disciplines. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Publication date

July 5, 2005

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780060839789