ENGLISH

Portable Magic

By Emma Smith

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2021
ISBN
9780241427286
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2443488 bytes)
Pages
242\242
Time added
2022-08-20 19:53:00

Description

Title Page About the Author Dedication Introduction: Magic books 1: Beginnings: East, West and Gutenberg 2: Queen Victoria in the trenches 3: Christmas, gift books and abolition 4: Shelfies: Anne, Marilyn and Madame de Pompadour 5: Silent Spring and the making of a classic 6: The Titanic and book traffic 7: Religions of the book 8: 10 May 1933: burning books 9: Library books, camp, and malicious damage 10: Censored books: ‘237 goddams, 58 bastards, 31 Chrissakes, and 1 fart’ 11: Mein Kampf: freedom to publish? 12: Talismanic books 13: Skin in the game: book-binding and African-American poetry 14: Choose Your Own Adventure: readers’ work 15: The empire writes back 16: What is a book? Epilogue: Books and transformation Notes Acknowledgements Index Copyright

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