A History Of Reading by Alberto Manguel

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. This 2008 Penguin Books Paperback is in good condition. Large. Top corner pages all slightly bent probably due to poor storage of book.

ISBN: 9780140166545 SKU: 1576840 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Books About Books