TY - GEN AU - Manguel, Alberto TI - History of reading SN - 9780143126713 U1 - 028.9 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books N1 - CONTENTS Introduction ix The Last Page The Last Page 3 Acts of Reading Reading Shadows 27 The Silent Readers 41 The Book of Memory 55 Learning to Read 67 The Missing First Page 85 Picture Reading 95 Being Read To 109 The Shape of the Book 125 Private Reading 149 Metaphors of Reading 163 Powers of the Reader Beginnings 177 Ordainers of the Universe 187 Reading the Future 201 The Symbolic Reader 213 Reading within Walls 225 Stealing Books 237 The Author as Reader 247 The Translator as Reader 261 Forbidden Reading 279 The Book Fool 291 Endpaper Pages Endpaper Pages 309 Notes 321 Index 361 ER -