Place For Everything
«Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.»
Jan Morris
A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Picador
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781509881581
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.»
Jan Morris
«Quirky and compelling . . . She is a meticulous historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.»
Dan Jones, Sunday Times
«A library and academic essential.»
Libby Purves, The Times
«One of the many fascinations of Judith Flanders’s book is that it reveals what a weird, unlikely creation the alphabet is.»
Joe Moran, Guardian
«Judith Flanders’s A Place for Everything presents itself as a history of alphabetical order, but in fact it is more than that. Rather, as the title suggests, it offers something like a general history of the various ways humans have sorted and filed the world around them – a Collison –level view of the matter, in which alphabetical order is just one system among many.’»
Dennis Duncan, The Spectator
«Judith Flanders has a knack for making odd subjects accessible . . . In A Place for Everything, the popular historian paints alphabetisation as one of our most radical acts. . . Flanders retains a sense of fun . . . finds contemporary resonance in humanity's search for order.»
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