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A History of Reading
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel 0143126717 9780143126713
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the readers progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.

Author: Alberto Manguel

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 384

Publisher: Penguin Books

Publication Date: 2014-08-26


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