Around the world in 80 books / David Damrosch.
Publication details: London, UK Penguin 2023.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 471 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmISBN:- 9780141981499
- Around the world in eighty books
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 809 DAM | Available | 071345 |
Chapter one. London : Inventing a City -- Chapter two. Paris : Writers' Paradise -- Chapter three. Krakow : After Auschwitz -- Chapter four. Venice-Florence : Invisible cities -- Chapter five. Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat : Stories within stories -- Chapter six. The Congo-Nigeria : (Post)Colonial encounters -- Chapter seven. Israel/Palestine : Strangers in a strange land -- Chapter eight. Tehran-Shiraz : A desertful of roses -- Chapter nine. Calcutta/Kolkata : Rewriting empire -- Chapter ten. Shanghai-Beijing : Journeys to the west -- Chapter eleven. Tokyo-Kyoto : The west of the east -- Chapter twelve. Brazil-Columbia : Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias -- Chapter thirteen. Mexico-Guatemala : The Pope's blowgun -- Chapter fourteen. The Antilles and beyond : Fragments of epic memory -- Chapter fifteen. Bar Harbor : the world on a desert island -- Chapter sixteen. New York : Migrant metropolis.
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.
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