The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle
The Secret Library is a fascinating tour of Western history through the medium of its most emblematic invention the book.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, writer and 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 | 9781789295924 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789295920 |
| Title | The Secret Library |
| Author | Oliver Tearle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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