A History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0006546811
- ISBN 13
- 9780006546818
- Seller
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Waltham Abbey, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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
- Seller
- Phatpocket Limited (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Z1-H-006-02061
- Title
- A History of Reading
- Author
- Alberto Manguel
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006546811
- ISBN 13
- 9780006546818
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1997
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