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A Place For Everything

By Judith Flanders

A Place For Everything Books

A Place For Everything

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'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order of the alphabet continues to play a major role in our adult lives. From school registers to electoral rolls, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to library shelves, our lives have been ordered from A to Z. Long before Google searches, this magical system of organization gave us the ability to sort through centuries of thought, knowledge and literature, allowing us to sift, file, and find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. In A Place for Everything, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders fascinatingly lays out the gradual triumph of alphabetical order, from its use as a sorting tool in the Great Library of Alexandria to its current decline in prominence in the digital age. Along the way, the reader encounters a wonderful cast of characters,from the great collector Robert Cotton, who catalogued his manuscripts by the names of the busts of the Roman emperors surmounting his book cases, to the unassuming sixteenth-century London bookseller who ushered in a revolution by listing his authors by 'sirname' first. 'One of the many fascinations of Judith Flanders' book is that it reveals what a weird, unlikely creation the alphabet is.' Guardian
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2021-02-04
Publication Date:
2021-02-04
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1509881581
ISBN13:
9781509881581
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
275 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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