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Charles Mackay
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British writer (1814-1889)

Also known as: Charles Bruce Mackay, Чарльз Маккей, チャールズ・マッケイ, 查爾斯·麥凱, Маккей Чарлз

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Known works

  • Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions (1841)
  • A dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888)
  • Selections from Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: (1973)
  • Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
  • Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds (1852)