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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. 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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A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel
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- Released
- 1997
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- A History of Reading
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alberto Manguel
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 372
- ISBN10
- 0140166548
- ISBN13
- 9780140166545
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Philosophical Topics, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Writing, Culture, Cultural History, About Books, Writers, Reading, Literary History, Libraries, Librarianship, Library science, Book Culture
- First published
- 1996
- Original title
- A History of Reading
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- 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.