Books that changed the world
Subtitle: the 50 most influential books in human history
By: Andrew Taylor
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781782069423
Subjects: Books and reading; Literature and history; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Best books; History
Description: Contains profiles of fifty of history's most important and influential books, as selected by journalist and author Andrew Taylor, each with a summary of the contents, and a discussion of its historical context and legacy.
Notes: Includes index.

Previous edition: 2008.

"First published in hardback 2008 by Quercus Editions Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Iliad; title: The Histories; title: The Analects; title: The Republic; title: The Bible; title: Odes; title: Geographia; title: Kama Sutra; title: The Qur'an; title: Canon of Medicine; title: The Canterbury Tales; title: The Prince; title: Atlas, or, Cosmographi Meditations / Gerard Mercator; title: Don Quixote; title: First Folio / William Shakespeare; title: An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals / William Harvey; title: Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems / Galileo Galilei; title: Principia Mathematica; title: A Dictionary of the English Language / Samuel Johnson; title: Sorrows of Young Werther; title: The Wealth of Nations; title: Common Sense; title: Lyrical Ballads; title: Pride and Prejudice; title: A Christmas Carol; title: The Communist Manifesto; title: Moby Dick; title: Uncle Tom's Cabin; title: Madam Bovery; title: On The Origin of Species; title: On Liberty; title: War and Peace; title: The Telephone Directory; title: The Thousand and One Nights; title: A Study in Scarlet; title: The Interpretation of Dreams; title: Protocols of the Elders of Zion; title: Poems /Wilfred Owen; title: Relativity: The Special and the General theory; title: Ulysses / James Joyce; title: Lady Chatterley's Lover; title: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; title: If This is a Man; title: Nineteen Eighty-four; title: The Second Sex; title: Catcher in the Rye; title: Things Fall Apart; title: Silent Spring; title: Quotations from Chairman Mao; title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.