The book of books: the radical impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 / Melvyn Bragg
2011, 1st Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #345860
Physical description: 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: From Hampton Court to New England. The scope of it; The road to 1611; The foundation is laid; The King James Version is commissioned; The four companies; The Mayflower and the Covenant; The Bible in the Civil Wars (1642-51); The new map; The Great Awakening -- The impact on culture. The Royal Society (1660): early modern science and the Bible; Language; The Bible itself as literature; From Shakespeare: the Bible and literature (1); American literature and the twentieth century: the Bible and literature (2); The eighteenth-century Enlightenment; The matter of Richard Dawkins: the new Enlightenment; Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wilberforce -- The impact on society. Slavery and the Civil War in America (1); Slavery and the Civil War in America (2); The Bible and education; On a mission around the world; The Bible and sex; The Bible and women; Christian socialism and the social gospel; The Bible and democracy. Subjects: Bible English Versions Authorized History. Bible English Versions Authorized Influence.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). Religion.
Price: €12.95