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

Imprint

Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2005.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
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)