The swerve how the world became modern
Greenblatt transports listeners 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.
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books,
p2011.
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Summary: | Greenblatt transports listeners 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Compact discs. In container (17 cm.) "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container. |
| Physical Description: | 8 sound discs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Issued also on cassette. |
| ISBN: | 9781461838227 1461838223 |
| Author Notes: | He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011). (Bowker Author Biography) |
