- Written communication, Censorship, History, Archives
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction -- and surprising survival -- of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Ovenden
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529378757
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