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Author Keay, Julia.

Title Alexander the Corrector : the tormented genius whose Cruden's concordance unwrote the Bible / Julia Keay.

Imprint Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2005.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead FD  220 C887Bk 2005    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xviii, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2004.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.
Contents 1. A Singular Addiction -- 2. The South Part of this Island -- 3. Monsieur Whatever-You-Please -- 4. Oh, for an 'Orlando'! -- 5. No Ordinary Queen -- 6. Receptacles of Misery -- 7. A Hundred Hairs to Hang By -- 8. Coup de Grace -- 9. Too Much Religion -- 10. The Hundredth Hair -- 11. 'That which Men call madnesse' -- 12. A Matter of Life and Death -- 13. Much Personal Respect.
Summary The true and tragic story of Alexander Cruden, author of Cruden's Concordance to the Bible, a work four times the length of the Bible.
Subject Cruden, Alexander, 1699-1770.
Cruden, Alexander, 1699-1770 (OCoLC)fst01427773
Biblical scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Biblical scholars. (OCoLC)fst00831328
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
ISBN 158567690X (alk. paper)
9781585676903 (alk. paper)

 
    
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