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A History of Reading
by Manguel, Alberto
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0006546811
- ISBN 13
- 9780006546818
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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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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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0285689
- Title
- A History of Reading
- Author
- Manguel, Alberto
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006546811
- ISBN 13
- 9780006546818
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- BZDB2 BOOKS AND READING_HISTORY Sociology & Culture; Books on Books; Various Unbranded ISBN: 0006546811 EAN: 9780006546818 Manguel, Alberto A History of Reading
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.