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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Abigail Williams is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the time, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Abigail Williams
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300240252
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Computer Science
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5 (8 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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