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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 17 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Emily Woo Zeller, Dawn Harvey. |
| Summary |
Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel-the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the twentieth century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow, Adele, a notoriously bitter woman set on taking belated revenge against the establishment by refusing to hand over these documents of immeasurable historical value.But as Anna soon finds out, Adele has a story of her own to tell. Through descriptions of Princeton and Vienna after the war, the occupation of Austria by the Nazis, the pressures of McCarthyism, the end of the positivist ideal, and the advent of nuclear weapons, Anna discovers firsthand the epic story of a genius who could never quite find his place in the world-and the private torment of the woman who loved him. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Gödel, Kurt -- Fiction.
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Mathematicians -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Austria -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wood, Willard, translator.
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Zeller, Emily Woo.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982499150 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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198249915X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11195927 |
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