books by Alberto Manguel

books by Alberto Manguel

books:

Alberto Manguel

The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère) ...
Alberto Manguel

Goose Lane Editions & Université de Moncton, 2008

In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace, are the starting point for a meditation on the roles of writer and reader, and what kind of vision is required of them to explore and depict the world. ...

The Library at Night

Alberto Manguel

Yale University Press, 2008

The Romance of Reading
Alberto Manguel has produced a romantic history of libraries which incorporates their best feature: the ability to wander down hitherto unsuspected byways and make new discoveries, often winding up far from your original objective but still satisfied by what you have ...

A History of Reading

Alberto Manguel

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1997

For anybody who has been graced to read to live, and others too!
When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in a white man's prison for being black he acknowledged that books kept him sane. When Somerset Maugham went travelling through Malaya early last century his companions were books. Any reader can identify with these two ...

Reading Pictures: What We Think About When We Look at Art
Alberto Manguel

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002

This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of ...

The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories

Ecco, 2006

Suffering....
A little present to myself last year after seeing if featured in Oprah's magazine. A collection of some heavy hitters and some unknown's, along with a nice endorsement inside the flap about Christmas being the warmest of seasons, (or something to that effect). I ...

Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature

Alberto Manguel

Three Rivers Press, 1984

Bring back this astounding anthology.
I have a very old, bent copy of this incredible anthology that's falling apart because I've read it through six times. What's so great about it is that editor Alberto Manguel understands that the term, "fantastic," does not preclude the sublime. Entries here range ...

With Borges

Alberto Manguel

Telegram Books, 2006

Short But Sweet
This is a book you can easily devour in one sitting (about an hour and a half should do it), especially if you know and love the writings of Jorge Luis Borges the way I do. The author, Alberto Manguel, was a bookstore clerk that Borges enlisted to read out loud to him, ...

Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

Alberto Manguel

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007

Masterful literary commentary
Alberto Manguel, well-known Argentinian writer and literary critic, was chosen as the commentator on the Iliad and the Odyssey in the Atlantic's excellent 'book biographies' series. He does so with the erudition, the insight, the wit, and the cultural knowledge that he ...

The Secret Supper: A Novel

Javier Sierra

Washington Square Press, 2007

Symbology and Secrets Galore
The intrigue of The Secret Supper surpasses many books of its type, including the international best-seller The DaVinci Code. The already well-known symbology in art during the Renaissance is the central theme, here. Secret codes fill in much of the rest of the ...

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic

Alberto Manguel

Harcourt, 2000

Curiously Addictive
The work principally concerns itself with literary locations, set on this earth, and should not be criticized for failing to list locales from every US television program to have ever aired. My greatest problem has always been the difficulty in putting it down. You ...

Bulfinch's Mythology (Modern Library Classics)

Thomas Bulfinch

Modern Library, 1998

Good infornation to put in your background
I'm a foreign student studying in the US. I listened to this audiobook while I was preparing for GRE. I learned many new vocabulary from the audiobook. Later when I took western philosophy class, I understood what my professor was talking about because I had learned ...

By The Light Of The Glow-worm Lamp
Alberto Manguel

Basic Books, 1998

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 represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over ...

The Merciful Women

Federico Andahazi

Grove Press, 2002

A dark, ironic parody of the Gothic genre....
On a dark stormy night, a group of people holidaying by Lake Geneva gather to read out their stories. It is a competition devised by the dashing Lord Byron, to see who can write the most horrific and terrifying story... one of these people is Mary Shelley.... This book ...

Ports of Call

Amin Maalouf

Harvill Press, 1999

My Favourite
This is the most outstanding of all the Maalouf novels I have read- and I must tell you I read almost all. This is probably also because the novel starts at my birthplace Adana, a southern town in Turkey. The novel is loaded with overflowing emotions. Not only I read ...

Oriental Tales

Marguerite Yourcenar

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986

Oriental Tales
If you enjoy finely crafted story telling, exquisite imagery, painterly prose, and highly imaginative explorations of timeless emotional and philosophical themes then this book of short stories is for you. Comprised of Yourcenar's reinterpretation of folk tales from ...