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A History of Reading

A History of Reading

A History of Reading
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A History of Reading

by Alberto Manguel

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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. 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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Title
A History of Reading
Author
Alberto Manguel
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Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
PBK
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0006546811
ISBN 13
9780006546818
Publisher
HARPER COLLINS
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1997
Pages
372
Keywords
READING

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