TY - SER
AU - Martin Puchner
CY - New York, NY
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Alexander's pillow book </li><li>King of the Universe : of Gilgamesh and Ashurbanipal </li><li>Ezra and the creation of Holy Scripture </li><li>Learning from the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus </li><li>Murasaki and The tale of Genji: the first great novel in world history </li><li>One thousand and one nights with Scheherazade </li><li>Gutenberg, Luther, and the new public of print </li><li>The Popol Vuh and Maya culture: a second, independent literary tradition </li><li>Don Quixote and the pirates </li><li>Benjamin Franklin: media entrepreneur in the republic of letters </li><li>World literature: Goethe in Sicily </li><li>Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao: readers of The Communist Manifesto, unite! </li><li>Akhmatova and Solzhenitsyn : writing against the Soviet state </li><li>The epic of Sunjata and the wordsmiths of West Africa </li><li>Postcolonial literature : Derek Walcott, poet of the Caribbean </li><li>From Hogwarts to India</li></ul>
PB - Random House
PP - New York, NY
PY - 2017
SN - 9780812998948
EP - 412 pp.
TI - The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
ER -