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A History of Reading
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by Alberto Manguel
Sales Rank: 24582
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List Price: $20.00
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
Published by: Penguin Non-Classics October 1, 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0140166548
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0140166545
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Reader Reviews
"A History of Reading" is an eclectic collection of essays on books, bibliophiles, bibliophobes, bibliokleptomanes, printing, translation, censorship, reading glasses and the Heian period in Japan. A browser's delight, it can also be devoured in a single sitting (guilty). From reading aloud to reading silently and from the physical pleasures of a book's shape, binding and smell to the less corporeal qualities of books that prompted Pinochet's Chile to ban "Don Quixote" as subversive, Alberto Manguel's bibiomanic panorama is a thoroughly enjoyable celebration of one of life's greatest pleasures. In it, the reader will encounter Callimachus of Cyrene, who worked in the "vanished library" of Alexandria and laid the foundations for what we know today as the library catalogue; compare and contrast the difffering approaches to public readings of Charles Dickens and Pliny the Younger; and decide once and for all whether it is preferable to read lying down or at a desk. Tolle, lege!
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