The world between two covers : reading the globe

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"A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-long journey through a book from every country. Following an impulse to read more internationally, journalist Ann Morgan undertook first to define "the world" and then to find a story from each of 196 nations. Tireless in her quest and assisted by generous, far-flung strangers, Morgan discovered not only a treasury of world literature but also the key...

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Books and reading

English literature Publishing Foreign countries

Geography and literature

Literature Translations into English Publishing

Literature and the Internet

Morgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice) Books and reading

National characteristics in literature

Publishers and publishing

Women journalists Books and reading England

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ISBN:

9781631490675

Edition:

First American edition

Description:

336 pages

Other Title:

Reading the world

Notes:

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Harvill Secker under the title Reading the world: confessions of a literary explorer
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Deciding to travel : the impulse to read the world
Plotting the route : the global literature landscape
Identifying landmarks : cultural identity and the problem of authenticity
Following the trade routes : publishing around the world
Venturing off the beaten track : writers commercial publishing doesn't reach
Taking alternative modes of transport : oral narratives
Encountering roadblocks : censorship, propaganda and exiled writers
Broadening the mind : empathy and politics in literature
Dealing with culture shock : when books and readers clash
Finding myself : representations of the West in books around the world
Crossing the language barrier : translation
Surveying the road ahead : technology and the internet

LCCN:

2015000936

Control Number:

1209141

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