Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ RevolutionDESCRIPTION : THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER One for Philip Pullman fans THE TIMES This one is an automatic buy GLAMOUR Ambitious, sweeping and epic EVENING STANDARD Razor sharp DAILY MAIL An ingenious fantasy about empire GUARDIAN Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the

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