The Secret Library
A Book Lover's Journey Through Curiosities of Literature
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Published:28th Mar '24
£9.99
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The Secret Library is a fascinating tour of literature through the medium of its most emblematic invention – the book.
The Secret Library is a fascinating tour of Western history through the medium of its most emblematic invention – the book.
How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer’s Iliad to Aesop’s Fables?
The Secret Library explores these intriguing morsels of lesser-known history, along with the familiar literary heavyweights we know and love. Bringing together an eclectic literary mix of novels, plays, travel books, science books and joke books, author Oliver Tearle explores how the history of the Western World has intersected with all kinds of books over the last 3,000 years.
Delve into this treasure trove of curious literary examples to learn how our history and books are inextricably linked.
If Oliver Tearle's book is half as interesting as his website Interesting Literature, his Twitter feed and his Huffpost blog, it's going to be very interesting indeed -- John Lloyd CBE, creator of QI
A fascinating and engagingly genial stroll through several hundred years of literary anecdote and insight. Tearle is wonderfully good company as of course are the protagonists themselves -- Simon Evans, writer and comedian
If you love books, you'll need this one * Daily Mail *
ISBN: 9781789295924
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight: 235g
256 pages