Proust and the Squid

Maryanne Wolf

RRP: £9.99

Publisher: ICON BOOKS

Publication Date : 06/11/2008

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The hardback edition sold over 26,000 copies in the US, and was in "Publishers Weekly"'s 'Best Books Of 2007'. Contains many incredible insights into the brain, and a reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind. When you consider that reading is something humans invented only a few thousand years ago, which essentially means that our brains have been rearranged, then the intellectual evolution of humankind is endless.

Publisher's description:

Explores how our brains learnt to read. This work presents a discussion ranging from the history of the earliest known examples of written language, to whether reading online really is making us 'stupider', and why dyslexia can be a gift.

ISBN: 9781848310308