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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812998936
ISBN-13
9780812998931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234245686

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Book Title
Written World : the Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, General, Books & Reading, Historical
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Martin Puchner
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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LCCN
2017-002438
Reviews
Advance praise for The Written World   "[Martin] Puchner creates a gripping intellectual odyssey." --Publishers Weekly    " The Written World is not only an expansive, exuberant survey of the central importance of literature in human culture but also a great adventure story--a story of letters and paper and rocket ships, of ruthless conquerors and elegant court ladies and middle-class entrepreneurs, of the will to power and the dream of freedom. Leading the reader across a vast landscape of space and time, Martin Puchner is the perfect companion and guide. Restless, witty, learned, and endowed with seemingly infinite curiosity, he brings home to us how much we have been formed over the millennia by the tales we have invented and recorded." --Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern   "A unique and spellbinding book . . . Martin Puchner's dramatic storytelling leads us through the mazes and underworlds of civilization at key moments when it is being built or unbuilt. The Written World shows the way 'great books'--and the alphabets, clay tablets, and printing presses by which they were spread--provided both the rudder and the sails for humanity's voyage across vast oceans of time." --Elaine Scarry, author of Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets   "From Mesopotamia to the moon, The Written World is an imaginative, informative, and ingenious history of civilization in the form of a narrative of what people have written and read over the last four thousand years. It's an exhilarating feat of intellectual athleticism. The big picture doesn't get much bigger." --Louis Menand, author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
809.93358
Table Of Content
Introduction: Earthrise Map and Timeline of the Written World Chapter 1: Alexander''s Pillow Book Chapter 2: King of the Universe: Of Gilgamesh and Ashurbanipal Chapter 3: Ezra and the Creation of Holy Scripture Chapter 4: Learning from the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus Chapter 5: Murasaki and The Tale of Genji : The First Great Novel in World History Chapter 6: One Thousand and One Nights with Scheherazade Chapter 7: Gutenberg, Luther, and the New Public of Print Chapter 8: The Popol Vuh and Maya Culture: A Second, Independent Literary Tradition Chapter 9: Don Quixote and the Pirates Chapter 10: Benjamin Franklin: Media Entrepreneur in the Republic of Letters Chapter 11: World Literature: Goethe in Sicily Chapter 12: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao: Readers of The Communist Manifesto , Unite! Chapter 13: Akhmatova and Solzhenitsyn: Writing Against the Soviet State Chapter 14: The Epic of Sunjata and the Wordsmiths of West Africa Chapter 15: Postcolonial Literature: Derek Walcott, Poet of the Caribbean Chapter 16: From Hogwarts to India Acknowledgements Notes Illustration Credits Index
Synopsis
The story of literature in sixteen acts--from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto , and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji , and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto . Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, and introduces us to the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions--writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself--that have shaped people, commerce, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as "unique and spellbinding," Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world. Praise for The Written World "It's with exhilaration . . . that one hails Martin Puchner's book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. . . . Storytelling is as human as breathing." -- The New York Times Book Review "Puchner has a keen eye for the ironies of history. . . . His ideal is 'world literature, ' a phrase he borrows from Goethe. . . . The breathtaking scope and infectious enthusiasm of this book are a tribute to that ideal." -- The Sunday Times (U.K.) "Enthralling . . . Perfect reading for a long chilly night . . . Puchner] brings these works and their origins to vivid life." --BookPage "Well worth a read, to find out how come we read." --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter, The story of literature in sixteen acts--from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto , and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji , and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto . Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, and introduces us to the wordsmiths of the oral epic Sunjata in West Africa. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions--writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself--that have shaped people, commerce, and history. In a book that Elaine Scarry has praised as "unique and spellbinding," Puchner shows how literature turned our planet into a written world. Praise for The Written World "It's with exhilaration . . . that one hails Martin Puchner's book, which asserts not merely the importance of literature but its all-importance. . . . Storytelling is as human as breathing." -- The New York Times Book Review "Puchner has a keen eye for the ironies of history. . . . His ideal is 'world literature,' a phrase he borrows from Goethe. . . . The breathtaking scope and infectious enthusiasm of this book are a tribute to that ideal." -- The Sunday Times (U.K.) "Enthralling . . . Perfect reading for a long chilly night . . . [Puchner] brings these works and their origins to vivid life." --BookPage "Well worth a read, to find out how come we read." --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
LC Classification Number
PN51.P79 2017

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