A history of reading
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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Una Historia de La Lectura
August 2005, Emece Editores
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in Spanish
9500426609 9789500426602
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Lōk nai mư̄ nakʻān =: A history of reading
2003, Matichon
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- Phim khrang thī 2.
9743229558 9789743229558
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Une Histoire de la lecture
September 30, 2001, J'ai lu
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in French
2290303534 9782290303535
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Dokusho no rekishi: aruiwa dokusha no rekishi.
2000, Kashiwashobō
in Japanese
- 2nd print.
4760118063 9784760118069
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Eine Geschichte des Lesens.
December 1, 2000, Rowohlt Tb.
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in German
3499229080 9783499229084
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Una Historia de La Lectura
June 1999, Grupo Editorial Norma
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in Spanish
9580450587 9789580450580
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História da Leitura, Uma
1999, Companhia das Letras
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in Portuguese
- 1 edition
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The history of reading
1998, Vintage Canada
in English
- Vintage Canada ed.
0676970222 9780676970227
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Uma história da leitura
1997, Companhia Das Letras
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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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