Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Greenblatt tackles the origins of humanity through the most enduring story of all time.
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities
at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including
The Swerve- How the World Became Modern, which won the National
Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times
bestseller Will in the World- How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning.
He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature
and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of
literary criticism.
A compelling, all-encompassing story of myth, theology and belief
... He delves deftly and lucidly into theology... Fascinating
*Spectator*
Thrilling … a study of western disenchantment, of intellectual
progress, of the fading powers of the myths of a simpler age. But
it is a more complex study than that. It is also an ode to human
creativity and to the powerful grip of narrative
*Guardian*
Fascinating
*Sunday Times*
Enthralling, thrilling… Along the way, there is an often hilarious
account of scholastic efforts to rationalise the myth’s illogic,
and an array of entertaining heresies… What gives Greenblatt’s
“intellectual adventure” its tension and excitement is a sense of
his own divided loyalties
*Observer*
Erudite, wide-ranging, thought-provoking and elegantly
fashioned
*Irish Independent*
Greenblatt, on excellent form here, visits familiar destinations
... with fresh eyes, and opens up new interpretative vistas ...
Hefty themes are covered in this spellbinding book, but the
learning is worn lightly.
*BBC History magazine*
This is a learned book, but Greenblatt’s passion for story-telling
makes it read like a series of fascinating anecdotes… The Rise and
Fall of Adam and Eve is exhilarating to read and a feast for the
mind
*Sunday Times*
Greenblatt is utterly engaging.
*Prospect*
Greenblatt's inexhaustible curiosity goes without saying; what
makes this book a wonder is its passion … nothing less than a love
story, a hymn. Who would have thought scholarship could be so
ardent or so poignant?
*Howard Jacobson, winner of the MAN Booker Prize*
Pellucid, absorbing and for many contemporary readers surely
definitive account
*New Statesman*
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