Eine Geschichte des Lesens
by Alberto Manguel
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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. 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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Translation of: A history of reading.
"Printed in Austria."
"Achtung! Dies ist eine unregidierte Leseprobe. Sie ist in Umfang, Papierqualität und Bindeart nicht identisch mit dem fertigen Buch."
Includes bibliographical references.
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