An edition of A history of reading (1996)

Una historia de la lectura

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An edition of A history of reading (1996)

Una historia de la lectura

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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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Publisher
Alianza Editorial
Language
Spanish
Pages
396

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Une histoire de la lecture
Une histoire de la lecture
2000, Actes Sud
in French
Cover of: Una historia de la lectura
Una historia de la lectura
1998, Alianza Editorial
in Spanish
Cover of: Une histoire de la lecture
Une histoire de la lecture
January 1, 1998, Actes Sud
Paperback
Cover of: A history of reading
A history of reading
1997, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: A history of reading
A history of reading
1996, A.A. Knopf Canada
in English - 1st Canadian ed.
Cover of: A history of reading
A history of reading
1996, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

Translation of: A history of reading.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Madrid

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Dewey Decimal Class
028/.09

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Pagination
396, [2] p. :
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22633508M
ISBN 10
8420642924
Library Thing
2968
Goodreads
3246208

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