Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities by Keith Houston

Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities

Keith Houston

353 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
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From ancient Greece to the Internet—via the Renaissance, Gutenberg, and Madison Avenue—Shady Characters exposes the secret history of punctuation.A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves ...

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