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Living Dolls

Living Dolls

by Gaby Wood (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $8.83
Synopsis

"Living Dolls" tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations. Could an 18th-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was the "Automatic Turk", a celebrated chess-playing machine that toured around Europe, a fake? Why did the great inventor Thomas Edison go to so much effort to mass produce a speaking mechanical child? What happened to the family of midgets who pretended to be dolls? And how can a 21st-century robot express human emotions?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 17 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0571214665
ISBN 13: 9780571214662
Book Overview: Living Dolls by Gaby Wood, described by Joyce Carol Oates as 'A treasure trove of marvels and information. Wittily and cogently written, this unusual cultural analysis provides us with unsettling insights into our historic fascination with human simulacra through the centuries.'

Author Bio
Gaby Wood was born in 1971. She read French at Cambridge University and is the author of a short work of non-fiction, The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness. She has contributed to the Guardian and the London Review of Books, and is now a staff writer on the Observer. Living Dolls is her first full-length book.