A History of Reading
出版时间:
2014-08
ISBN:
9780143126713
定价:
461.94
装帧:
其他
页数:
384页
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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.,
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内容简介:
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.,
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