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Around the World in 80 Books
David Damrosch
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Description for Around the World in 80 Books
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'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Greenblatt
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books
'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan Pamuk
Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141981499
SKU
V9780141981499
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About David Damrosch
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Institute for World Literature. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book (2007), Comparing the Literatures (2020) and the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2008). He has lectured in fifty countries ... Read more
Reviews for Around the World in 80 Books
A hymn to the unifying power of literature... Around the World in 80 Books takes us on a tour of the author's global head, and while expanding our knowledge it enlarges our capacity for fellow-feeling
Peter Conrad
Observer
It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and ... Read more
Peter Conrad
Observer
It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and ... Read more