The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt

Book Overview

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393064476
• ISBN13: 9780393064476
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking!

Very interesting book and a page turner.