A History of Reading
of Alberto Manguel (Goodreads Author)
Description
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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 372 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication Date October 1st 1997
- First Publication 10/01/96
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140166545
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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