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The swerve : how the world became modern

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Running Time: 09:41 hrs

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Publisher:
Recorded Books, 2011

Details:

Author: Greenblatt, Stephen

Contributor: Recorded Books, LLC.; Ballerini, Edoardo

Edition: Unabridged

Date:

Created
2011

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Copyrighted
2011

Summary:
Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.

Genre:
History and geography, Creative nonfiction

Subject(s): Civilization, Modern | Lucretius Carus, Titus | Philosophy, Renaissance | Renaissance | Science, Renaissance

Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital

Language(s): English

ISBN: 9781464000904