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A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
$29.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
$49.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
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
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Self-help | Reading Level: General Adult
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: Art and Photography
This visual history takes us through a classic assemblage of famous personalities from the worlds of literature, photography, art, politics and film.
Homer's The Illiad and The Odyssey: A biography (Books That Shook The World series) by Alberto Manguel
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | 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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A bestselling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.
Packing My Library - An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In 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 Manhatta ...Show more
The City of Words : Understanding Civilisation through Story (2007 CBC Massey Lectures) by Alberto Manguel
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
'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 Library At Night by Alberto Manguel
$29.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | 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.
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