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Title: THE BOOK OF PREFACES
By: Alasdair Gray
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £14.99


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ISBN 10: 1408856387
ISBN 13: 9781408856383
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 15 May, 2014
Pages: 640
Description: A great, fascinating work from award winning novelist Alasdair Gray chronicling the history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states.
Synopsis: This book is NOT a monster created by a literary Baron Frankenstein, but a unique history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states. The result of a lifetime's reading and creative labour, intellectual and artistic, THE BOOK OF PREFACES will delight, amaze and inform both casual browsers and students. Its like will not be seen again for at least another millennium.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Returns: Non-returnable
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