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

Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World Trade paperback - 2006

by Basbanes, Nicholas A

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Following his highly regarded books about book collectors and book preservation, Basbanes explores those books that have shaped culture and changed the way the world is viewed.

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New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 1x6x9. First printing. Remainder mark. 2006 Trade Paperback. xviii, 360 pp. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively 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. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller -- even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler -- by knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought. Taking the concept one step further, Basbanes profiles some of the most articulate readers of our time -- David McCullough, Harold Bloom, Robert Fagles, Robert Coles, Helen Vendler, Elaine Pagels, Daniel Aaron, Christopher Ricks, Matthew Bruccoli, and Perri Klass among them -- who discuss such relevant concepts as literary canons, classic works in translation, the timelessness of poetry, the formation of sacred texts, and the power of literature to train physicians, nurture children, and rehabilitate criminal offenders.
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  • Title Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
  • Author Basbanes, Nicholas A
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2343351
  • ISBN 9780060593247 / 0060593245
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.12 x 1.08 in (22.86 x 15.54 x 2.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical:
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Books and reading, Best books
  • Dewey Decimal Code 028.9

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In the early years of the twentieth century a woman named May Lamberton Becker (1873-1958) enjoyed enormous popularity for the "Readers Guide" columns she wrote for the New York Evening Post, and later the Saturday Review of Literature.

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