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Author: Alberto ManguelPublisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0140166548Subject: History
ISBN-13: 9780140166545Topic: --
Format: PaperbackLanguage: English
Publication Year: 1997Condition: Brand New
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A book devoted to that mysterious and possibly endangered activity: reading. It starts with the truism, often forgotten, that without the reader no books would exist--and no literature. Noted essayist and anthologist Alberto Manguels takes the "reader" on a fantastic voyage across the continents and centuries to trace the lost chapters the "book" of this joyful and magical craft.

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From clay tablets to CD-ROM, from book thieves to book burners, bibliophiles, book fools and saints, noted essayist Alberto Manguel follows the quirky and passionate 4,000-year-old history of the written work whose true hero is the reader. Photos & line drawings.

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"...[Manguel] has done a magnificent job in vindicating the most pleasureable and satisfying of solitary acts--that of private reading."
Literary Review - Roger Caldwell (06/19/1996)

"['A History of Reading'] charms through the scope of Mr. Manguel's erudition and his balance of scholarship with literary exuberance....[One is] envious of his passion and grateful for this prodigious book; through it, his gift becomes our own."
New York Times Book Review - Michael Milburn (11/17/1996)

"'A History of Reading' is a wonderful merger of scholarship and personal essay. Manguel is clearly enchanted with the act of reading and he writes so beautifully and felicitously that he infects us with his enthusiasm again and again. He has perpetrated a delight."
Book Jacket - Phillip Lopate 

"A kaleidoscopic chrestomathy by a bookman-polymath who seems to know almost everything and grows on you, idiosyncratically."
Book Jacket - Edward Hoagland 

"Manguel's urbane, unpretentious tone recalls that of a friend eager to share his knowledge and enthusiasm. This book, digressive, witty, surprising, is a pleasure."
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A History of Reading
ISBN: 9780140166545
Author: Manguel, Alberto
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: 10/1/1997
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Presents the stories of book thieves, book burners, censors, anarchists, women of eleventh century Japan who had to invent their own reading material, and African American slaves who were forbidden to read under penalty of death
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