The Secret Library

Oliver Tearle2016
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As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, "The Secret Library "brings to light more neglected items among the bookshelves of the world. While discussing Darwin s groundbreaking "On the Origin of Species," we ll learn why that bestseller was outsold in Darwin s own lifetime by his book on earthworms, and how Edgar Allan Poe s biggest-selling title was a book on mollusks. We ll learn about the forgotten Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens, how Sherlock Holmes s famous illustrator got the job because of a clerical error, and how the word 'trilby" taken from a Victorian novel was originally applied to people s feet before it became the name of a hat. "The Secret Library "brings these little-known stories to light, exploring the intersection between books of all kinds and the history of the Western world over 3,000 years."

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