Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by Shatt

ISBN: 0156005514

Author: Shattuck, Roger

Condition: new

In his best achievement to date (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to biotechnology research. Index.