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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus Book

The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus, 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 , The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
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  • The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
  • Written by author Joshua Kendall
  • Published by Penguin Group (USA), 3/13/2008
  • 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
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Preface     1
Prologue: Stained by the Blood of a National Hero     9
Formations (1779-1808)
The Boy Without a Home     21
The Brilliant Student     53
The Idle and Depressed Young Man     83
Napoleon's Captive     111
Manchester: Both the Thesaurus and a Medical Career Begun     145
Bloomsbury Doctor, Inventor, and Scientist (1809-1848)
The Best-Looking and Most Gentlemanly Bachelor in England     181
Mary     211
Mourning, Scholarly Triumph, and a Secret New Love     233
Wordsmith in Retirement (1849-1869)
Back to the Thesaurus     251
Vibrant Until the Last Breath     267
Epilogue: The Thesaurus Through the Years     281
Acknowledgments     285
Index     290


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 Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers, was one , The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

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 Polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado, Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers, was one , The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus

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