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Paperback Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks Book
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ISBN: 0393349721

ISBN13: 9780393349726

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

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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.

Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (+)--which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible--or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to...

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