A Splendor of Letters
Subtitle: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: November 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780060580803
Subjects: Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Books; Books & Reading; Literacy; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading
First sentence: At the core of a high-stakes political speech that has survived the passage of twenty-four centuries is a caustic aside on the merits of safeguarding written testimony and the need to archive documentary material.