A History of Reading

Nonfiction, History, Civilization, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Books & Reading
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Author: Alberto Manguel ISBN: 9780698178977
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: August 26, 2014
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Alberto Manguel
ISBN: 9780698178977
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: August 26, 2014
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

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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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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