“A book brings its own history to the reader.”
Alberto Manguel (1948) writer
The Last Page, p. 16.
A History of Reading (1996)
“The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.”
As quoted in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
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