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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages, 1 folded plate [4] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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....
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