The man who made lists : love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget's Thesaurus /
Peter Mark Roget--polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado--was a complicated man. He was a scholar obsessed with his work, yet he had an allure that endeared him to his contemporaries--not to mention a host of female admirers. But most notably, he made lists. Roget longed for order in his chaotic wo...
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New York :
G.P. Putnam's Sons,
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Stained by the Blood of a National Hero 9
- Part 1 Formations (1779-1808)
- Part 2 Bloomsbury Doctor, Inventor, and Scientist (1809-1848)
- Part 3 Wordsmith in Retirement (1849-1869)
- Epilogue: The Thesaurus Through the Years 281.