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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 372
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-016654-5
  • EAN
  • 9780140166545
  • Genres
  • history, essays, literature, philosophy, writing, cultural, canada
  • Release date
  • 1997