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A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 by Alberto Manguel
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's Elective Affinities) seemed to reflect the social chaos of 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 promp ...Show more
A Reading Diary : A Year of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel
$24.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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
All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel (transl. by Miranda Frances)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of the brilliant South American writer Alejandro Bevilacqua, found lying on his balco ...Show more
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
$47.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 history. Why ...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
$37.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A bestselling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.
The City of Words : Understanding Civilisation through Story (2007 CBC Massey Lectures) by Alberto Manguel
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'And yet stories, even the best and truest, can't save us from our own folly. Stories can't protect us from suffering and error, from natural and artificial catastrophes, from our own suicidal greed. The only thing they can do is ...offer consolation for suffering and words to name our experience. Stori ...Show more
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic by MANGUEL ALBERTO
$45.00 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
The Library At Night by Alberto Manguel
$36.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Reading Level: very good
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 Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Inspired 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 libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can rememb ...Show more