The Power of Words: How Literature Shapes People, Civilizations, and World History
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Literature is not just a mirror of the world, its power to shape the world is greater than thousands of armies. "The Power of Words" selects 16 particularly important classic works from more than 4,000 years of world literature, including "The Iliad", "The Bible", "The Tale of Genji", "One Thousand and One Nights", "The Communist Manifesto", and "Harry Potter", allowing us to see how words shape philosophy, religion, politics and civilization - a heroic legend that urged Alexander to continue Conquest, until the land under his rule was soaked in the color of that legend; the records of a few disobedient students made their teacher's teachings influence billions of people thousands of years later; a thin manifesto completely changed the pattern of the world... With these great works, empires rose and fell, civilizations rose and fell, and history was shaped by the hammer of words into what we see today.
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