{"product_id":"wonderworks-book-angus-fletcher-9781982135973","title":"Wonderworks","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, that shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs--rivaling any scientific inventions--and engineering enhancements to the human heart and mind.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiterature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere--from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others--each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature's great invention was to address problems we could not solve: not how to start a fire or build a boat, but how to live and love; how to maintain courage in the face of death; how to account for the fact that we exist at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWonderworks\u003c\/i\u003e reviews the blueprints for twenty-five of the most powerful developments in the history of literature. These inventions can be scientifically shown to alleviate grief, trauma, loneliness, anxiety, numbness, depression, pessimism, and ennui--all while sparking creativity, courage, love, empathy, hope, joy, and positive change. They can be found all throughout literature--from ancient Chinese lyrics to Shakespeare's plays, poetry to nursery rhymes and fairy tales, and crime novels to slave narratives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn easy-to-understand exploration of the new literary field of story science, \u003ci\u003eWonderworks \u003c\/i\u003eteaches you everything you wish you learned in your English class. Based on author Angus Fletcher's own research, it is an eye-opening and thought-provoking work that offers us a new understanding of the power of literature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49545601974545,"sku":"GOR012117380","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50311172030737,"sku":"CIN1982135972VG","price":4.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404587438353,"sku":"CIN1982135972G","price":4.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53196991660305,"sku":"GOR012553703","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982135972.jpg?v=1751125367","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/wonderworks-book-angus-fletcher-9781982135973","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}