Every Book Its Reader The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

Name: Every Book Its Reader The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
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ISBN: 9780060593247

ISBN-10: 0060593245

ISBN-13: 9780060593247

Edition: 2007

Authors: Nicholas A. Basbanes

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Nicholas A. Basbanes, who has been called "our leading author of books about books" by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough, offers an engaging consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world-works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people such as John Milton, Isaac Newton, Frederick Douglass, Henry James, Helen Keller, and even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler. Basbanes also profiles the most articulate readers of our own time-including Harold Bloom, Robert Fagles, Helen Vendler, and Elaine Pagels-and offers insightful discussions of literary canons and classic works in translation as well as…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Nicholas A. Basbanes has worked as an award-winning investigative reporter, a literary editor, and a nationally syndicated columnist. The author of five books, he also writes a regular column for Fine Books & Collections magazine and lectures widely on book-related issues. He and his wife, Constance, live in Massachusetts.