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Gutenberg's Apprentice Audiobook by Alix Christie
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Gutenberg's Apprentice Author: Alix Christie Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 09-23-14 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Fiction, Historical Publisher's Summary: Alix Christie's rich and enthralling debut novel reveals the explosive human drama behind the world-changing invention of the printing press and the creation of the worlds most famous book: the Gutenberg Bible. The year is 1450. Peter Schoeffer, an ambitious young scribe, returns from Paris to Mainz, his home town on the Rhine, at the behest of his foster father, a forward-thinking merchant and bookseller. There he is unwillingly thrown into a workshop that his father has financed, a strange, dark place run by a driven, caustic master named Johann Gutenberg. Its purpose is the manufacture of books in a new - and according to some, blasphemous