An eclectic and entirely original history of reading from eminent social historian Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi fled to England in 1956 from Hungary. He was appointed Professor of Social Studies at the University of Kent but celebrated also as a pundit and public intellectual throughout the English speaking world. His most celebrated books include Paranoid Parenting (reissued by Continuum) The Culture of Fear and Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone. His books are widely reviewed and he is on the lecture circuit from Chatham House to Adelaide.
[A] supremely erudite history of reading through the centuries ...
Exhaustively researched and punctuated with absorbing anecdotes
*Times Literary Supplement*
A barnstorming rebuttal of those who hail the death of reading and
the author. This formidably erudite history is an elegant
celebration of literature and its power to cultivate the mind.
*Professor Duncan Wu*
This comprehensive and erudite study is a love letter to
literacy
*Prospect*
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