Around the world in 80 books /
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative...
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New York :
Penguin Books,
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Table of Contents:
- London : Inventing a City
- Paris : Writers' Paradise
- Krakow : After Auschwitz
- Venice-Florence : Invisible cities
- Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat : Stories within stories
- The Congo-Nigeria : (Post)Colonial encounters
- Israel/Palestine : Strangers in a strange land
- Tehran-Shiraz : A desertful of roses
- Calcutta/Kolkata : Rewriting empire
- Shanghai-Beijing : Journeys to the west
- Tokyo-Kyoto : The west of the east
- Brazil-Columbia : Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias
- Mexico-Guatemala : The Pope's blowgun
- The Antilles and beyond : Fragments of epic memory
- Bar Harbor : the world on a desert island
- New York : Migrant metropolis.