Pencil by Beggy, Carol;

Series: Object Lessons;

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Product details:

Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Date of Publication 8 February 2024
Number of Volumes Paperback

ISBN 9781501392245
Binding Paperback
No. of pages152 pages
Size 164x122x14 mm
Weight 149 g
Language English

Short description:

Pencil is a quick read (113 pages in 10 chapters), and an interesting exploration of where and how pencils are made, what sets them apart from each other, and how they maintain their usefulness and appeal in a world inundated with technology. After all, there's a reason that an estimated two billion pencils are made worldwide every year.

Long description:

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.

Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.

Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.