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Author	Morgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice)
Title	The world between two covers : reading the globe / Ann Morgan.
Publication Info.	New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	028 M	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First American edition.
Description	326 pages ; 25 cm
Note	First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Harvill Secker under the title Reading the world: confessions of a literary explorer.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Deciding to travel : the impulse to read the world -- Plotting the route : the global literature landscape -- Identifying landmarks : cultural identity and the problem of authenticity -- Following the trade routes : publishing around the world -- Venturing off the beaten track : writers commercial publishing doesn't reach -- Taking alternative modes of transport : oral narratives -- Encountering roadblocks : censorship, propaganda and exiled writers -- Broadening the mind : empathy and politics in literature -- Dealing with culture shock : when books and readers clash -- Finding myself : representations of the West in books around the world -- Crossing the language barrier : translation -- Surveying the road ahead : technology and the internet.
Subject	Books and reading.
	Morgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice) -- Books and reading.
	Women journalists -- Books and reading -- England.
	English literature -- Publishing -- Foreign countries.
	Publishers and publishing.
	Geography and literature.
Added Title	Reading the world
	Reading the globe
ISBN	9781631490675 (hardcover)
	1631490672 (hardcover)

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