Tag: Literary History

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Summary

‘The Professor and the Madman’ by Simon Winchester is a captivating true story that explores the unlikely collaboration between a brilliant professor and a criminally insane murderer in the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Secrets We Kept Summary

‘The Secrets We Kept’ by Lara Prescott is a captivating historical fiction that reveals the untold story of the women who helped smuggle Boris Pasternak’s ‘Doctor Zhivago’ out of the Soviet Union.

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