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History of Reading
Häftad, 1997
218 kr
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This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and …
Reverse Side of the Tapestry
Häftad, 2026
190 kr
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The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers - Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into …
Packing My Library
An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Häftad, 2019
159 kr
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A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.“The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of books and reading. Vintage Manguel—a pleasure for his many readers and admirers.”—Kirkus ReviewsIn …
Library at Night
Häftad, 2009
186 kr
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A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universeInspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of …
Reader on Reading
E-bok, 2010
328 kr
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"A meditation on the ''art of reading'' . . . [and] a celebration of ''the reader''s whims—trust in pleasure and faith in haphazardness.''" —The New YorkerHere are thirty-nine reflections on the joy and solace of reading by the internationally celebrated author Alberto Manguel, who is widely …
Reader on Reading
Häftad, 2011
307 kr
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An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated authorIn this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called “the Casanova of reading,” argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. …
Curiosity
E-bok, 2015
227 kr
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Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human …
Maimonides
Faith in Reason
Inbunden, 2023
242 kr
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An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138–1204), was born in Córdoba, Spain. The gifted son of a judge and mathematician, …
Packing My Library
An Elegy and Ten Digressions
E-bok, 2018
197 kr
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A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all librariesIn June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France''s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on …
Fabulous Monsters
Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
E-bok, 2019
209 kr
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An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world''s most eminent bibliophilesAlberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their …
Fabulous Monsters
Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
Häftad, 2020
254 kr
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“In art and words, a book lover honors the characters he can’t forget.”—New York Times Book ReviewAn original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophilesAlberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines …
Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey"
A Biography
Häftad, 2024
214 kr
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A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name are foundations of …
Resistance
Inbunden, 2026
172 kr
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A passionate tribute to literature and writing as beacons of clarity and truthCan a society compel its inhabitants to admit the evidence of facts? Can literature help us see the world as it really is? Why do censors fear books and the possibility of a dialogue between reader and writer? How does a …
By The Light Of The Glow-worm Lamp
Av Alberto Manguel, Alberto Manguel m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
212 kr
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From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the keen scientific eye has been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts in which not only the world observed but the act of observation itself is set down for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp …
Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Essays on Words and the World
E-bok, 2011
314 kr
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By the award-winning author of A History of Reading "For me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe …
Reading Diary
E-bok, 2011
167 kr
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The must-have literary book of the season! Over the course of a year, the bestselling author of A History of Reading spends a month with each of his 12 favourite books, allowing us to observe both the heart of the reading experience and how life around us can be illuminated by what we read. From …
Library at Night
E-bok, 2011
252 kr
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In the tradition of A History of Reading , this book is an account of Manguel’s astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The Library at Night begins with the design …
History of Reading
E-bok, 2014
272 kr
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the …
Into the Looking Glass Wood
Essays on Words and the World
Häftad, 2000
114 kr
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In these essays, Alberto Manguel discusses the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explores the consequences of society's betrayal of its readers and writers. He covers writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar and G.K. Chesterton, as well as Che Guevara and Goethe.
Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
The Reader as Metaphor
E-bok, 2013
543 kr
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As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing …
Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
The Reader As Metaphor
Inbunden, 2013
384 kr
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As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing …
Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
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Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer …
All Men Are Liars
E-bok, 2012
82 kr
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In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying . But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies …
Cut Stones and Crossroads
A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
Av Ronald Wright, Alberto Manguel
Häftad, 2020
156 kr
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We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour and good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an ultimate purpose to these journeys: a passionate need to bear witness to the truth about the past, after centuries of …
Bride of Frankenstein
E-bok, 2019
204 kr
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Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film''s felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such …
Bride of Frankenstein
E-bok, 2019
208 kr
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Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film''s felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers of a jealous God. And he finds echoes in the work of modern artists such …
North America and Spain: Transversal Perspectives - Norteamérica y España: perspectivas transversales
Av Alberto Manguel, Julio Cañero
Häftad
596 kr
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