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。
Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a. [f. L. mystérium Mysteryi + ous. Cf. F. mystérieux.]
1. Full of or fraught with mystery; wrapt in mystery; hidden from human knowledge or understanding; impossible or difficult to explain, solve, or discover; of obscure origin, nature, or purpose. </P>
It is known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters. The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story--a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.
Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly--and mysteriously--refused.
Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor--that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane--and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.
The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary and literary history. With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tortured mind and his contribution to another man's magnificent dictionary.
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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 评分知识的癫狂故事 关于《教授与疯子》 这个小说的开场是一场凶杀案。在伦敦泰晤士河边上贫民窟的一条街道上,凌晨两点,一个上早班的工人被一个来历不明的男子枪杀了。这个维多利亚时代寒冷街头发生的恐怖一幕,有着侦探小说的所有要素,但此后故事的河道陡然掉...
评分锡兰,葱茏繁茂的热带岛屿,像一滴泪珠挂在印度的南端——又像一只梨,一颗珍珠,有人还说像一只弗吉尼亚火腿。世界上戒律森严的传教士们,把它看作亚当和夏娃遭上帝驱逐后流亡的地方。它是负罪者的伊甸园,是经不起诱惑的人居住的地狱边缘。 他的生活只是一场缓慢的悲剧。 人...
评分无机客 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。这本书由百花文艺出版社出版,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,该书初版只印刷了4000册,并且我是在一家旧书店里找到它的,可...
被书评里的“the linguistic detective story”骗去看的书……但其实没那么好,整个故事写得相当忠实,应该确实做了很多功课,但只能说很无趣,不理解为什么最近炒得这么热,只能说营销手段比我想象得高端了……
评分被书评里的“the linguistic detective story”骗去看的书……但其实没那么好,整个故事写得相当忠实,应该确实做了很多功课,但只能说很无趣,不理解为什么最近炒得这么热,只能说营销手段比我想象得高端了……
评分Richness and time make a perfect scholar.
评分被书评里的“the linguistic detective story”骗去看的书……但其实没那么好,整个故事写得相当忠实,应该确实做了很多功课,但只能说很无趣,不理解为什么最近炒得这么热,只能说营销手段比我想象得高端了……
评分被书评里的“the linguistic detective story”骗去看的书……但其实没那么好,整个故事写得相当忠实,应该确实做了很多功课,但只能说很无趣,不理解为什么最近炒得这么热,只能说营销手段比我想象得高端了……
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