Book Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

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[People in 1600s] didn’t have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.

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In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morals” and that hit me hard. I don’t know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn’t seem like an egghead. They told me to talk about sports.

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Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then.

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Book Quotes by Stephen Greenblatt

[People in 1600s] didn’t have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.

Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then.

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