
Everything explained that is explainable
on the creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's celebrated eleventh edition, 1910-1911
Edición de la obra Everything explained that is explainable
| Autor | Denis Boyles |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Knopf |
| Fecha de publicación | 2016 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 442 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780307269171, 9780307389787 |
| ISBN-10 | 0307269175, 0307389782 |
| OCLC | 927166013 |
| LCCN | 2015029960 |
| Número de Cutter | B792e |
"The audacious, improbable tale of 20th century American hucksterism, outlandish daring, and vision that resurrected a dying Encyclopedia Britannica in collaboration with a floundering London Times, its astonishing success that changed publishing and that produced the Britannica's eleventh edition (published between 1910 and 1911), the most revered edition of English-language encyclopedias (all 44 million words), considered by many to be "the last great work of the age of reason" (Hans Koening, the New Yorker)"--