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

By Keith Houston
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By Keith Houston
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"An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics-highly recommended."-Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

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 ...

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