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Be Transported by These Printed Pages

Inspired by Jules Verne’s globe-circling Phileas Fogg, Harvard’s David Damrosch has created a companionable, round-the-world tour in books to inspire armchair travelers and the intrepid in-person adventurer alike. From classical Kyoto to post-war London to modern-day Nigeria, explore how writers encounter the world and how the world bleeds into literature, as they transmute social conflicts and personal traumas into works of pleasure and beauty. What better way to travel than on the page today, and then in person once

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