A History of Reading
ISBN-13:
9780143126713
ISBN-10:
0143126717
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Alberto Manguel
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
384 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780143126713
ISBN-10:
0143126717
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Alberto Manguel
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
384 pages
Summary
A History of Reading (ISBN-13: 9780143126713 and ISBN-10: 0143126717), written by authors
Alberto Manguel, was published by Penguin Books in 2014.
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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, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the reader’s progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
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