A Brief History Of Encyclopedias: From Pliny To Wikipedia

Author: Andrew Brown

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ISBN : 9781843919735
Publisher : Hesperus Press Ltd
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Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be.

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Andrew Brown is a translator and former teacher of French literature and philosophy at Cambridge University. He is the author of Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert and Brief Lives: Stendhal (both Hesperus Press).

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