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020			_a9780143126713
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050	1	4	_abM277h 2014
100	1		_aManguel, Alberto.
245	0	2	_aA history of reading / _cAlberto Manguel.
250			_a2 ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books , _c2014.
300			_axi, 372 p. : _bill, 1 folded plate [4] p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aOriginally published in 1996; this edition has a new introduction.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_aAt 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.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _xHistory.
650			_aBooks and reading.
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