alberto manguel

While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in.

Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a p

From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the keen scientific eye has been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful text

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

An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alber

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Moving from the Loire Valley to a small New York apartment forced Alberto Manguel to whittle down his 35,000-piece per

Part memoir, part biography, and a celebration of the living quality of literature, the author's reflections on the works of Borges, and of the writer

Als de wereld onbegrijpelijk wordt, als we in de war zijn, dan zoeken we een plaats waar begrip (of het vertrouwen in begrip) in woorden is opgeschrev

In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him;

This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revoluti

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker

"In art and words, a book lover honors the characters he can't forget."--New York Times Book Review

An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’

Offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. This title conducts a library tour that extends from the author's childhood bookshelves t

Zijn eigen bibliotheek: overdag zit hij er te schrijven, 's nachts is het de plaats waar Alberto Manguel leest. Te midden van de duizenden titels die