Keith Houston

Broschiertes Buch

Shady Characters

The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

Beschreibung

A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.

Autor

Keith Houston is the author of Face with Tears of Joy, Empire of the Sum, Shady Characters, and The Book. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and on Mental Floss, BBC Culture, and Literary Hub. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norton
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780393349726
• ISBN-10: 0393349721
• Artikelnr.: 40443278