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Papyrus : the invention of books in the ancient world / Irene Vallejo ; translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vallejo Moreu, Irene, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Infinito en un junco. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Books--History--To 400.
- Books.
- Quests (Expeditions).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 442 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Invention of books in the ancient world
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Spanish.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE GREECE IMAGINES THE FUTURE
- The City of Pleasures and Books
- Alexander: The World Is Never Enough
- The Macedonian Friend
- Balancing at the Edge of the Abyss: The Library and the Musaeum of Alexandria
- A Story of Fire and Passageways
- Books and Skin
- A Detective's Task
- Homer: Enigma and Twilight
- The Lost World of Orality: A Tapestry of Echoes
- The Alphabet: A Peaceful Revolution
- Voices from the Mist, Uncertain Times
- Learning to Read the Shadows
- The Triumph of Unruly Words
- The First Book
- Traveling Bookstores
- The Religion of Culture
- A Man with a Prodigious Memory and a Group of Avant-Garde Girls
- Women, Weavers of Stories
- The Other Tells Me My Story
- The Drama of Laughter: Our Debt to Rubbish Dumps
- A Passionate Affair with Words
- Poison and Fragility
- The Three Destructions of the Library of Alexandria
- Lifeboats and Black Butterflies
- How We Began to Be Strange
- pt. TWO THE ROADS TO ROME
- A City with a Bad Reputation
- The Literature of Defeat
- The Invisible Threshold of Slavery
- In the Beginning Were the Trees
- Poor Writers, Rich Readers
- A Young Family
- Bookselling: A Risky Business
- The Birth and Triumph of Books with Pages
- Public Libraries in Palaces of Water
- Two Men from Hispania: The First Fan and the Aging Writer
- Herculaneum: Preservation Amid Destruction
- Ovid Clashes with Censorship
- Sweet Inertia
- Journey to the Center of Books and How to Name Them
- What Is a Classic?
- Canon: The History of a Reed
- Shards of Women's Voices
- What Was Believed Eternal Turned Out to Be Fleeting
- Dare to Remember.
- Notes:
- First published in US by Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781529343960
- 1529343968
- OCLC:
- 1346505741
- Publisher Number:
- 99992907719
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