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The Swerve How The World Became Modern

Paperback • 2012 • English

The Swerve How The World Became Modern

By Stephen Greenblatt

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About the book

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page-turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word. In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had disco...Show more

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ISBN

9780393343403

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

The Swerve How The World Became Modern

Format

Paperback

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