Vintage canada edition, 1998 Copyright 1996 by Alberto Manguel

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VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 1998
Copyright © 1996 by Alberto Manguel
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by
Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, in 1998. First published in hardcover in
Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, in 1996. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto.
Vintage Canada and colophon are registered trademarks of
Random House of Canada Limited.
Every reasonable effort has been made to trace ownership of copyright materials. Information enabling
the Publisher to rectify any reference or credit in future editions will be welcomed.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Manguel, Alberto, 1948–
A history of reading
eISBN: 978-0-307-36419-7
1. Books and reading — History. 2. Reading — History. I. Title.
Z1003.M35 1997 028’.09 C96-930984-8
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TO CRAIG STEPHENSON,

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That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
My head so much concerned with outer
Yours with inner weather.
— After Robert Frost —

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