Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
by
Joshua Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, a "brisk and vivid"( Los Angeles Times) account of an obsessive scholar.
Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers, was one of the first to test the effects of laughing gas, invented...