{"product_id":"rise-and-fall-of-adam-and-eve","title":"Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRise and Fall of Adam and Eve\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eStephen Greenblatt\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393240801\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e432\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve\u003c\/em\u003e explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very \"real\" to millions of people even in the present. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of \u003cem\u003eThe Swerve\u003c\/em\u003e), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation, while he also limns the diversity of the story's offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe biblical origin story, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the scientific nature of things, but rather a deep encounter with problems that have gripped our species for as long as we can recall and that continue to fascinate and trouble us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve | Stephen Greenblatt | Hardcover | 9780393240801 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1763240","offer_id":49264293511320,"sku":"1763240","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71xak2Wj3FL.jpg?v=1781808323","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/rise-and-fall-of-adam-and-eve","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}