Gutenberg's Apprentice

A novel about the birth of the printing press “spotlights intriguing parallels between 15th-century Europe and the digital media of the twenty-first-century world” (The New York Times Book Review).

Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris when his foster father, wealthy merchant and bookseller Johann Fust, summons him home to corrupt, feud-pla...