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Alexander The Corrector

The Tormented Genius Whose Cruden's Concordance Unwrote The Bible

by Julia Keay

ISBN: 158567690X
ISBN-13: 9781585676903
Format: Hardcover

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Overlook Pr
Published date: 2005
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 1.04 pounds
Pages: 269

Publisher's Notes

The story behind the creation of Alexander Cruden's Cruden's Concordance to the Bible describes how the late-seventeenth-century writer spent much of his life in asylums in spite of a probability that he was sane.

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