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0140166548

Pub Date: 1997
Publisher: Penguin USA Summary: "...[Manguel] has done a magnificent job in vindicating the most pleasureable and satisfying of solitary acts--that of private reading."

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ISBN-13:

9780140166545

ISBN:

0140166548

Pub Date: 1997
Publisher: Penguin USA

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"...[Manguel] has done a magnificent job in vindicating the most pleasureable and satisfying of solitary acts--that of private reading."

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