A history of reading
By: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781101651414; 9780698178977
Subjects: History; HISTORY; Social History
Description: At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book-that string of confused, alien ciphers-shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
Notes: Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed September 14, 2015).