Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith, eds. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers—From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code.
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Dictionaries, indexes, etc Dictionaries and encyclopedias Vade-mecums Manuals Political thought Government Political theory Civil government Commonwealth, The Science, Political Administration Politics Knowledge, Books of Subject dictionaries Books of knowledge Cyclopedias Dictionaries Encyclopedias and dictionaries, English Yankees Dictionaries, indexes, etc Dictionaries and encyclopedias Cookery Recipe books Cook-booksCiter ce document
Christina Dokou, « Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith, eds. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers—From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code. », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.10162
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… this inquiry is concerned with the connection between popular books read for pleasure by adult Americans and the times in which those books were read.…; but flexible as the criterion may be, it would be stretched beyond the breaking point should it include dictionaries, school texts, cookbooks, government reports, or manuals on specialized subjects. Taken from James Hart’s The Popular Book, this quote might describe at once the rationale behind Must Read and its competitive advantage for th...