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23%OFFAdam Gopnik - Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin, Lincoln and modern life - 9781849161862 - V9781849161862
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Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin, Lincoln and modern life

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'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' - Andrew Marr

On February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate.
Each would see his life's work transform mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, changed the way we think about the very nature of existence, and that their great achievements proceeded from the same source: ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849161862
SKU
V9781849161862
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1

About Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

Reviews for Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin, Lincoln and modern life
'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding'
Andrew Marr
'Vivid and charming ... Gopnik moves from the personal to the political with ease, and his writing hums with authenticity'
Financial Times
'Adam Gopnik is a great essayist, with a precise, fastidious, ... Read more

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