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A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
$49.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
In 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. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything", writes Manguel, "landscape, the skies, t ...Show more
A Reading Diary : A Year of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel
$25.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word. He decided to keep a record o ...Show more
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinkerCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden wa ...Show more
Encounters: 100 Artists, Writers and Thinkers by Alberto Manguel
$49.95 AUD
Category: Photography
This visual history takes us through a classic assemblage of famous personalities from the worlds of literature, photography, art, politics and film.
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Sup.. by Alberto Manguel
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life.In this personal reckoning with his favorite ...Show more
Homer's The Illiad and The Odyssey: A biography (Books That Shook The World series) by Alberto Manguel
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Books that Shook the World Ser.
The stories of the Trojan war, of Helen of Troy - the face that launched a thousand ships, Achilles' heel, Jason and the Argonauts and Odysseus' quest are embedded stories in our culture, yet we often fail to recognise that they all spring from two sources: The Iliadand The Odyssey, and one blind poet: ...Show more
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A bestselling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.
The Library At Night by Alberto Manguel
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. This title conducts a library tour that extends from the author's childhood bookshelves to the 'complete' libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google.
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor by Alberto Manguel
$36.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Material Texts
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 throu ...Show more
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