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Uma história da leitura

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An edition of A history of reading (1996)

Uma história da leitura

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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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Editorial Presença
Language
Portuguese
Pages
366

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Subjects

History, Reading, Books and reading, Lezen, Boeken, Histoire, books, Geschichte, Livres et lecture, Lesekultur, open_syllabus_project, Books and reading, history, Lecture, Livre, Lecture, Goût de la, Literature, history and criticism, Books, history

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Une histoire de la lecture
2000, Actes Sud
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Uma história da leitura
1998, Editorial Presença
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Une histoire de la lecture
January 1, 1998, Actes Sud
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A history of reading
1997, Penguin Books
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A history of reading
1996, Viking
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A history of reading
1996, A.A. Knopf Canada
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Translation of: A history of reading.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lisboa

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028/.09

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366, [2] p. :
Number of pages
366

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OL20765433M
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9722323393
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