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100 Books That Changed the World
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100 Books That Changed the World
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A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world’s most influential books.
Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think?
In
100 Books that Changed the World
, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly ground-breaking books—from scriptures that founded religions, to scientific treatises that challenged beliefs, to novels that kick-started literary genres. This elegantly designed book, first published in 2018 but updated with an exciting new cover, offers a chronological timeline of three millennia of human thought distilled in print, from the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of eBooks and audiobooks.
Entries include:
The Iliad
and
The Odyssey
, Homer (750 BC)
Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(1845)
The Diary of a Young Girl
, Anne Frank (1947)
Things Fall Apart
, Chinua Achebe (1958)
A Brief History of Time
, Stephen Hawking (1988)
Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think?
In
100 Books that Changed the World
, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly ground-breaking books—from scriptures that founded religions, to scientific treatises that challenged beliefs, to novels that kick-started literary genres. This elegantly designed book, first published in 2018 but updated with an exciting new cover, offers a chronological timeline of three millennia of human thought distilled in print, from the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of eBooks and audiobooks.
Entries include:
The Iliad
and
The Odyssey
, Homer (750 BC)
Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(1845)
The Diary of a Young Girl
, Anne Frank (1947)
Things Fall Apart
, Chinua Achebe (1958)
A Brief History of Time
, Stephen Hawking (1988)