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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a bookthat string of confused, alien ciphersshivered 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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- Title The History of Reading
- Author Alberto Manguel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1997-10-01
- ISBN 9780140166545 / 0140166548
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.14 x 1 in (22.71 x 15.60 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Books and reading - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96002703
- Dewey Decimal Code 028.9
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