Mandela's Books and the Strong-Room of Dreams Reflecting on the Value of Literature

Walder, Dennis
Publication Date 2001
Publisher Open University Press,
Binding Pamphlet
Condition Very good copy
SKU 6476
Notes Clean and neat.

Description

Stapled with card covers. 27pp. Inaugural lecture given on 8th March 2001. Considers the importance of the literary experience drawing on his own childhood experience with Dickens' works in South Africa, and on the experiences of Mandela and other political prisoners for whom books represented, thought, freedom, action, inspiration and more.
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