The History of Reading |
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| Author:
| Manguel, Alberto |
| ISBN: | 978-0-14-016654-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book
#151;that string of confused, alien ciphers
#151;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...
More DescriptionAt one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book#151;that string of confused, alien ciphers#151;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.