A History of Reading
Penguin Books, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Item #658367
ISBN: 0140166548
A Near Fine copy with a touch of scuffing to wraps. 372p., b/w illustrations and photographs. // ' 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.' -- publisher.
Price: $12.00