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Author Morgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice)

Title The world between two covers : reading the globe / Ann Morgan.

Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  028.9 MORGAN    On Display
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  028.9 MORGAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  028.9 MORGAN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  028.9 MOR    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  028.9 MOR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  028.9 MORGAN    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 326 pages ; 25 cm
Note First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Harvill Secker under the title Reading the world: confessions of a literary explorer.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-324)
Contents Deciding to travel : the impulse to read the world -- Plotting the route : the global literature landscape -- Identifying landmarks : cultural identity and the problem of authenticity -- Following the trade routes : publishing around the world -- Venturing off the beaten track : writers commercial publishing doesn't reach -- Taking alternative modes of transport : oral narratives -- Encountering roadblocks : censorship, propaganda and exiled writers -- Broadening the mind : empathy and politics in literature -- Dealing with culture shock : when books and readers clash -- Finding myself : representations of the West in books around the world -- Crossing the language barrier : translation -- Surveying the road ahead : technology and the internet.
Summary The author documents her quest to read one book from each country in the world, discussing the limitations of censorship and propaganda-ruled countries and her trouble finding a copy of the first Qatari novel translated into English.
Subject Books and reading.
Morgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice) -- Books and reading.
Women journalists -- Books and reading -- England.
English literature -- Publishing -- Foreign countries.
Literature -- Translations into English -- Publishing.
Publishers and publishing.
National charateristics in literature.
Geography and literature.
Literature and the Internet.
Added Title Reading the world
ISBN 9781631490675 (hardcover)
1631490672 (hardcover)
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