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A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A History of Reading about?

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. The Last Page -- Reading Shadows -- The Silent Readers -- The Book Of Memory -- Learning To Read -- The Missing First Page -- Picture Reading -- Being Read To -- The Shape Of The Book -- Private Reading -- Metaphors Of Reading -- Beginnings -- Ordainers Of The Universe -- Reading The Future -- The Symbolic Reader -- Reading Within Walls -- Stealing Books -- The Author As Reader -- The Translator As Reader -- Forbidden Reading -- The Book Fool -- Endpaper Pages. By Alberto Manguel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 323-353) And Index.

Who reads A History of Reading?

Author

Alberto Manguel

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670843022

Category

history

Subjects

Computer Science, Reference, Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14