Title:
The swerve : how the world became modern / Stephen Greenblatt.
ISBN:
9780393064476
9780393343403
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Awards Note:
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2012.
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.
Summary:
Greenblatt 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.
OCLC Number:
ocn711051785
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