It's 1589 and England is embroiled in a furious pamphlet war between an impudent Puritan calling himself Martin Marprelate and London's wittiest writers. The archbishop wants Martin to hang. The Privy Council wants the tumult to end. But nobody knows who Martin is or where he's hiding his illegal pr
Publish and Perish
β Scribed by James Hynes
- Book ID
- 115223000
- Publisher
- Picador
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 442 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781429975773
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
Combining the wit of David Lodge with Poe's delicious sense of the macabre, these are three witty, spooky novellas of satire set in academiaβa world where Derrida rules, love is a "complicated ideological position," and poetic justice is served with an ideological twist.
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