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

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. 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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, this book offers a 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicholas A. Basbanes, Nicholas A Basbanes, Basbanes Nicholas A.
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 12.12.2006
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9780060593247
• ISBN: 978-0-06-059324-7
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
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