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A History of Reading
by Manguel, Alberto
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0143126717
- ISBN 13
- 9780143126713
- Seller
-
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
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
- Chequamegon Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119467
- Title
- A History of Reading
- Author
- Manguel, Alberto
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0143126717
- ISBN 13
- 9780143126713
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
Terms of Sale
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