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In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs. Whether investigating the annotating duo of asterisk (*) and dagger (†); the plucky pilcrow (¶) and humble ampersand (&); or the at sign (@) and octothorpe (#), both newly reinvigorated by the Internet, Shady Characters will delight all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.
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Shady characters
2015, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd, imusti
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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0393349721 9780393349726
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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0393241548 9780393241549
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Shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks
2013, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton & Company
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0393064425 9780393064421
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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities
2013, Penguin Books, Limited
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1846146488 9781846146480
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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities
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Table of Contents
Preface.
Page ix
How to Read This Book.
Page xii
The pilcrow.
Page 3
The interrobang.
Page 25
The octothorpe.
#
Page 41
The ampersand.
&
Page 59
The @ symbol.
@
Page 79
The asterisk and dagger.
*
Page 97
The hyphen.
-
Page 121
The dash.
--
Page 145
The manicule.
Page 167
Quotation marks.
""
Page 187
Irony and sarcasm.
Page 211
1.
Irony in history
Page 212
2.
Ironics
Page 223
3.
Digital sarcasm
Page 229
Afterword.
Page 245
Further Reading.
Page 247
Acknowledgments.
Page 249
Notes.
Page 251
Illustration Credits.
Page 321
Index.
Page 325
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