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... Zobraziť viac
A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on... Zobraziť viac
Canongate Books: While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect... Zobraziť viac
