Great Speeches

The End of Books, by Octave Uzanne. 1894.


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In 1894, French writer and bibliophile Octave Uzanne wrote the article "The End of Books" for Scribner's Magazine, which he thought would come about because of the rise of phonography, and where he predicted the rise of radio and television.



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