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Johann gutenberg, a driven and caustic inventor, has devised a revolutionaryand to some, blasphemousmethod of bookmaking. Christie provides a powerful portrait of the intense, irascible and egotistical gutenberg, but her novels real strength lies in its depiction of his apprentice, peter schoeffer, drawn unwillingly into the struggle to build a new technology, yet eventually becoming its most committed advocate sunday times. Youthful, ambitious peter schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in paris when his foster. Titles in the project gutenberg catalog are already available as epub, but the quality of the formatting is not always the best, this is in part the fault of the original plain txt formatting of all pg titles but also the automated processing they employ. Gutenbergs apprentice is an impressive work, with language that at times becomes cumbersome. Schoeffer was gutenbergs apprentice in the 1450s as the germans workshop developed moveable type. All of the ebooks are in pdf file format, and all audio ebooks are in mp3 file format.
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