{"product_id":"the-swerve-stephen-greenblatt","title":"The Swerve — Stephen Greenblatt","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreenblatt tells the story of how a Florentine humanist named Poggio Bracciolini found, in a German monastery in 1417, a copy of Lucretius's \u003cem\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/em\u003e — an Epicurean poem arguing for a universe of atoms, without divine purpose, in which pleasure rather than asceticism was the appropriate human response. The poem had been lost for over a thousand years. Greenblatt traces its recovery, its transmission through Renaissance Europe, and its long influence on the development of modern secular thought, from Montaigne to Jefferson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003eWinner of the \u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e. 'A magnificent book — learned, witty, and deeply pleasurable.' — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e. 'Greenblatt has written a detective story about ideas, and it is a wonder.' — \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734529466695,"sku":null,"price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_3fd4b2d7-8df2-4c1c-8235-f6393850f6da.jpg?v=1776628146","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-swerve-stephen-greenblatt","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}