A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

ISBN-13: 9781509881581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str.

Judith Flanders

Opis

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

Recenzje

Praise for The Making of a Home:
All the vivid interest of something newly made strange.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett Sunday Times

O autorze

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