Interesting link: Twelve books that changed the world. New TV series by Melvyn Bragge to be screened on ITV next April in Britainl. God knows when we'll see it. But anyway the afticle below includes the List. Perhaps we should nominate alternatives. It appears 'The world' meant Britain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=361630&in_page_id=1773
3 comments:
Thanks, Pat
2 out of 12 are women writers. Sounds reasonable.
Ros
Ros,
The Genre people would love the list - 'book' includes a parliamentary speech, a patent spec., a rules book, a few science texts, with only Shakespeare's plays representing fiction.
Kevin Kline must be some automatic thing that goes to every blog. If we get more, we can restrict access
Well they are 'books' that changed the world, so I guess that means ideas. Can one argue that Middlemarch or Persuasion changed the world.
Surely there are books written in languages other than English that changed the world.
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