{"product_id":"around-the-world-in-80-books-hardcover","title":"Around the World in 80 Books - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e*Featured in the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune'\u003c\/i\u003es Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021* \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle--from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAround the World in 80 Books\u003c\/i\u003e is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Damrosch \u003c\/b\u003eis the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of comparative literature at Harvard University, and director of Harvard's Institute for World Literature. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including \u003ci\u003eWhat Is World Literature?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Buried Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComparing the Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e, and the six-volume\u003ci\u003e Longman Anthology of World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He has lectured in fifty countries around the world, and his online Harvard course Masterpieces of World Literature has been taken by nearly 100,000 people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395357720754,"sku":"9780593299883","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a81a4c79a92923b87f95ed030d132389.webp?v=1777989773","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/around-the-world-in-80-books-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}