The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle

The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle

An alternative history of Western civilization told through its most emblematic invention, the book. As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, The Secret Library uncovers more neglected works, exploring the intersection between books of all kinds and the history of the Western world.

If Oliver Tearle's book is half as interesting as his website Interesting Literature, his Twitter feed and his Huffpost blog, it's going to be very interesting indeed * John Lloyd CBE, creator of QI *
A fascinating and engagingly genial stroll through several hundred years of literary anecdote and insightTearle is wonderfully good company as of course are the protagonists themselves * Simon Evans, comedian *
If you love books, you'll need this one * Daily Mail *

Oliver Tearle is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University (UK), where he completed a PhD (in 2010) and has taught for the last seven years, having also taught at the University of Warwick.

He runs the blog Interesting Literature: A Library of Literary Interestingness, which gets 1.5 million views a month and has a weekly feature where he reveals a little-known work of literature. The blog also has an accompanying Facebook page and Twitter feed, the latter of which is followed by, among many others, the makers of the television series QI, the Oxford English Dictionary, the British Library, the British Museum, the Times Literary Supplement, and numerous comedians, writers, academics, journalists, politicians, and celebrities.

Oliver is the author of two academic books, Bewilderments of Vision: Hallucination and Literature, 1880–1914 (Sussex, 2013) and T. E. Hulme and Modernism (Bloomsbury, paperback edition 2015), as well as the co-editor of an experimental volume of critical and creative pieces, Crrritic! (Sussex, 2011). His proudest achievement is coining the word 'bibliosmia' to describe the smell of old books.

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ISBN 13	9781782435570
ISBN 10	1782435573
Title	The Secret Library
Author	Oliver Tearle
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Year published	2016-09-29
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.