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Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 19.95By the award-winning author of A History of Reading "For me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author's intentions and... more...
A Reading Diary
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 19.95The must-have literary book of the season! Over the course of a year, the bestselling author of A History of Reading spends a month with each of his 12 favourite books, allowing us to observe both the heart of the reading experience and how life around us can be illuminated by what we read. From June 2002 to may 2003, Alberto Manguel set out to... more...
The City of Words
House of Anansi Press 2011; US$ 15.95In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism -- building societies around sets of common values -- seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. Manguel suggests... more...
The Library at Night
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 22.95In the tradition of A History of Reading , this book is an account of Manguel?s astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The Library at Night begins with the design and construction of Alberto Manguel?s own library... more...
All Men Are Liars
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew?or thought they knew?Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying . But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect.... more...
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
Canongate Books 2009; US$ 9.99In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr Baker, turns his thoughts back to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home. As Stevenson's meetings with the tantalizingly nebulous missionary become... more...
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Atlantic Books Ltd 2013; US$ 10.19The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey , and one blind poet: Homer. Alberto Manguel begins his book with the poems' inception in ancient Greece... more...
Tyrant Banderas
New York Review Books 2012; US$ 14.95An NYRB Classics Original The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez?s The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos?s I, the Supreme , Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, one of the masters... more...
The Jungle Books
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 4.99Mowgli, lost in the deep jungle as a child, is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger, Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs the Laws of the Jungle. Through his many adventures, Mowgli evolves from a vengeful member... more...
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