- Renaissance, Learning and scholarship, History, History (Europe)
William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
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- Author
- William Manchester
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 318
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio Inc., Little Brown and company, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417707690
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“THE DENSEST of the medieval centuries-the six hundred years between, roughly, A.D. 400 and A.D. 1000-are still widely known as the Dark Ages.”
William Raymond Manchester was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. - Wikipedia
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