- Encyclopaedia Britannica, History, Intellectual life, Learning and scholarship
"Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacob's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z."
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Warm, contemporary, comic and spare.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Jacobs, A. J.
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 389
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743250603
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