Alberto Manguel Forfatter
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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Includes essays that discuss the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explore the consequences of society's betrayal of its... Læs mere
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The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cecite d'Homere) (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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A History of Reading (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the... Læs mere
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The Library at Night (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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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Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles
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Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
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The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader As Metaphor (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Alberto Manguel examines metaphors of readers and reading from literatures across centuries and the globe, from the ancient epic Gilgamesh to... Læs mere
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The Reverse Side of the Tapestry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An often humorous book-length meditation on the art of literary translation which, to Manguel's mind, is the keenest form of reading.
Levering: Kan forudbestilles (Forventes d. 24-09-2026)
