The swerve : how the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt.
The swerve : how the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Call Numbers
N940.21/50
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
356 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The book hunter -- The moment of discovery -- In search of Lucretius -- The teeth of time -- Birth and rebirth -- In the lie factory -- A pit to catch foxes -- The way things are -- The return -- Swerves -- Afterlives.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. In this work he has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neg...
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Full title
The swerve : how the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index.
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Date Copyright
c2011.
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N940.21/50
Record Identifier
74VvO4DWvjm3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvO4DWvjm3
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ISBN
9780393064476 (hbk.)
0393064476 (hbk.)
DDC
940.21
MMS ID
991008570899702626
