Judith Flanders

A Place For Everything

The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 78690
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 132mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781509881581
• ISBN-10: 1509881581
• Artikelnr.: 60041429

Autorenporträt

Judith Flanders is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books: A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home (2014), Christmas: A History (2017) and A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.

Rezensionen

Praise for The Making of a Home:
All the vivid interest of something newly made strange.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett Sunday Times