A History of Reading [Audiobook] download free by Alberto Manguel
- Listen audiobook: A History of Reading
- Author: Alberto Manguel
- Release date: 1997/12/19
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780006546818
- Rating: 9.66 of 10
- Votes: 436
- Review by: Walter Hollins
- Review rating: 9.26 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/8
- Duration: 4H42M23S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MOD, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, AIFF, MPEG4, Shorten (compression TAR, RPM, IMG, ZIP, RAR, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 41 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M28S (8.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expectations of the reader, acting alongside the creative will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary forms and genres. From man's first use of the written word simply as a form of reference, to the emergence of the first holy or devotional texts, and onto the development of fictions, both poetic and novelistic, this work aims to both challenge and enlighten.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Library & Information Sciences, Literary Studies: General, Historical & Comparative Linguistics, Sociology, Communication Studies
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 27.09 USD
- Dimensions: 159x216x25mm
- Weight: 871g
- Printed by: Flamingo
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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