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Around the world in 80 books

Damrosch, David2021
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Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature.
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Imprint:
[London] : Pelican, 2021.©2021.
Collation:
xxi, 470 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241501023 (hardback)
Dewey class:
809002
Language:
English
BRN:
583830
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