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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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Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd, imusti
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English
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340

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Type and type-founding, Writing, Punctuation, History, Signs and symbols, Type and type-founding, history, Writing, history, Paleography, Typography, Ponctuation, Histoire, Signes et symboles, Écriture, Interpunktion, Historia, Symboler, Skrift

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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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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
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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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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities
2013, Penguin Books, Limited
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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
1. THE PILCROW. ¶ Page 3
2. THE INTERROBANG. ‽ Page 25
3. THE OCTOTHORPE. # Page 41
4. THE AMPERSAND. & Page 59
5. THE @ SYMBOL. @ Page 79
6. THE ASTERISK AND DAGGER. *† Page 97
7. THE HYPHEN. - Page 121
8. THE DASH. — Page 145
9. THE MANICULE. Page 167
10. QUOTATION MARKS. “” Page 187
11. 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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P301.5.P86

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xi, 340
Number of pages
340
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19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 centimeters

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OL26230901M
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9780718193881

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