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A History of Reading

Paperback
Published : Monday 21 April 1997
ISBN : 9780006546818
Price : €19.88


Description

This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands of the reader, acting alongside the will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary genres.



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