A History of Reading
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.
- Author
- Alberto Manguel
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 372
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-016654-5
- EAN
- 9780140166545
- Genres
- history, essays, literature, philosophy, writing, cultural, canada
- Release date
- 1997
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