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 (view editions)

nonfiction history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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 ...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...