CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgements

THE LAST PAGE
The Last Page
ACTS OF READING
Reading Shadows
The Silent Readers
The Book of Memory
Learning to Read
The Missing First Page
Picture Reading
Being Read To
The Shape of the Book
Private Reading
Metaphors of Reading
POWERS OF THE READER
Beginnings
Ordainers of the Universe
Reading the Future
The Symbolic Reader
Reading within Walls
Stealing Books
The Author as Reader
The Translator as Reader
Forbidden Reading
The Book Fool
ENDPAPER PAGES
Endpaper Pages

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