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    A history of reading / by Alberto Manguel.

    • Title:A history of reading / by Alberto Manguel.
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    • Author/Creator:Manguel, Alberto.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Little Red Riding Hood Collection.
    • Published/Created:New York : Viking, 1996.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Books and reading--History.
    • Edition:1st American ed.
    • Description:372 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
    • Local note:UBC Library has a copy in the E. Rita Ourom Red Riding Hood Collection.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-353) and index.
    • ISBN:0670843024 (acid-free paper)
    • Contents:Last Page
      Reading Shadows
      Silent Readers
      Book of Memory
      Learning to Read
      Missing First Page
      Picture Reading
      Being Read To
      Shape of the Book
      Private Reading
      Metaphors of Reading
      Beginnings
      Ordainers of the Universe
      Reading the Future
      Symbolic Reader
      Reading within Walls
      Stealing Books
      Author as Reader
      Translator as Reader
      Forbidden Reading
      Book Fool
      Endpaper Pages.
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