A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New, slight wear to cover
- ISBN 10
- 0670843024
- ISBN 13
- 9780670843022
- Seller
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Barrington, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book that string of confused, alien ciphers shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rocking Chair Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 555495
- Title
- A History of Reading
- Author
- Alberto Manguel
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, Dustjacket
- Book Condition
- New Like New, slight wear to cover
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670843024
- ISBN 13
- 9780670843022
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 384
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