Nonfiction | History
A Literary Tour de France : The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution
by Robert Darnton 2020-06-19 10:51:49
image1
COMPARE PRICE
The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order ... Read more
The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopedie , repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-Francois Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history. Less
  • File size
  • Print pages
  • Publisher
  • Publication date
  • Language
  • ISBN
  • 9.3x6.1x1.1inches
  • 376
  • Oxford University Press, USA
  • February 1, 2018
  • eng
  • 9780195144512
autor-image
Robert Darnton
Author
A former professor of European history at Princeton University, Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library. The founder of the Guttenberg...
Compare Prices
image
Hard Cover
Buy USD 34.95
image
Buy GBP 19.12
Available Discount
12 % OFF
12% off Academic Book Titles (ebooks.com)
Show Coupon Code

See More Details

Description: Back to School Promotion at eBooks.com. 12% off Academic book titles. Landing page is on our academics category page. Static image.

10 % OFF
Save 10% OFF on Student Text Books (ebooks.com)
Show Coupon Code

See More Details

Description: Purchase textbooks at student discounts!

20 % OFF
20% Off on selected Categories
Show Coupon Code

See More Details

Description: 20% Off these Categories- Body Mind & Spirit, Family & Relationships, Foreign Language Study, History, Sports & Recreation. Offer Lasts all through January.

Related Books
view all
image1
Berlin and Sans-Souci: Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends, Volume 2:
image1
In and Around Berlin:
image1
The Kiltartan History Book:
image1
Uarda A Romance of Ancient Egypt:
image1
Old English Libraries:
image1
The Leading Facts of English History:
image1
My Four Years in Germany:
image1
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office:
image1
Voyages Dans La Basse Et La Haute Egypte Pendant Les Campagnes de Bonaparte:
image1
Days of the Discoverers:
image1
Germany and the Next War:
image1
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View:
image1
In New England Fields and Woods:
image1
The Barbarism of Berlin:
image1
My Private Menagerie:
image1
In the Claws of the German Eagle:
image1
Tacitus on Germany:
image1
Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods:
image1
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (Webster's Spanish Thesaurus Edition):
image1
Von Tripolis nach Alexandrien - 1. Band:
image1
A War-Time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes:
image1
The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known:
image1
Germany From the Earliest Period, Volume 4:
image1
An Anthology of German Literature (Classic Reprint):
image1
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together With Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries: Depicting, by Pen and ... Remarkable Event, Romantic Episodes,:

Stay in touch.

© 2024 AMPLE READS