Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography

Author/Contributor(s):	Shattuck, Roger
Publisher:	Harper Paperbacks
Date:	09/15/1997
Binding:	Paperback
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.