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**The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including __The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto__, and how they shaped world history**In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the powerful role stories and literature have played in creating the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he reveals how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs. We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, __The Tale of Genji__, and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of __The____Communist Manifesto__. Puchner takes us to Troy, Pergamum, and China, speaks with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott in the Caribbean and Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, as well as the wordsmiths of the oral epic __Sunjata__ in West Africa. This delightful narr

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Author

Martin Puchner

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812988277

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (236 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14