A History of Reading
by Manguel, Alberto
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- NF./NF.
- Seller
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Waterloo,, Ontario, Canada
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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
- Old Goat Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1081470
- Title
- A History of Reading
- Author
- Manguel, Alberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF.
- Jacket Condition
- NF.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays/Belles Lettres;
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