A History of Reading
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With a New IntroductionAt one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, & at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.Noted essayist & editorAlberto Manguelmoves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words & that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader.Manguelbrilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, & as obsession & goes on to tracethe quirky & fascinating history of the reader’s progressfrom clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
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- Name of the Author
- Alberto Manguel
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143126713
- Release date
- 2014
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With a New IntroductionAt one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, & at ...