Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911 - Softcover

Boyles, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307389782 ISBN 13: 9780307389787

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017

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Críticas:

"Definitive and meticulously researched." --Chicago Tribune

"In a highly readable style, nicely seasoned with occasional ironic touches, Denis Boyles limns the intricate business negotiations that went into the creation of the Eleventh Edition. . . . [He] provides excellent portraits of the key figures responsible." --The Wall Street Journal

"A terrific tale." --The Times Literary Supplement

"[An] enthralling business history." --The Washington Post

"Entertaining. . . . Boyles writes with such a mordant touch his chapters move along even as they assault you with hurricanes of information." --The Boston Globe

"Encyclopedic--weighty, but worthwhile." --The Seattle Times

"Everything Explained That Is Explainable almost reads like fantastic fiction. The book drops you into a time when print publishers possessed the same dynamism as today's web developers and authors celebrated as much fame as prime time pundits." --Paste Magazine

"A thorough and engaging telling of the Eleventh Edition's conception and birth, midwifed by an eclectic group of madcaps who succeeded in producing a literary treasure the likes of which will never be seen again." --National Review

"A suspenseful new work of history." --Asheville Citizen-Times

"[A] colorful chronicle of how the legendary 11th edition of the Encylopædia Britannica came to be." --The Christian Science Monitor

Reseña del editor:

Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles’s work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0307389782
• ISBN 13: 9780307389787
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464