books by Alberto Manguel     books:       Stevenson Under the Palm Trees2 reviews Alberto Manguel Canongate U.S., 2004 a fair doppelganger story This story is set during Robert Louis Stevenson's last days, as he attempts to continue writing while convalescing in Samoa. One day an Edinburgh missionary arrives on the island where Stevenson lives. He appears at chance moments to Stevenson and speaks in a manner both cryptic and threatening. Soon a series of terrible crimes occurs on the island, and the natives are certain that Stevenson ...             The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories2 reviews 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 couldn't wait to curl up with this one.... This book is rich in examples of human frailty; insignificance, tragedy, irony, greed, ...             A History of Reading25 reviews 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 quite different gentlemen - Virginia Woolf wrote whilst at school "I have sometimes dreamt that when the day of judgement dawns ...             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 years this was not the case. Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images: Is there a ...             Black Water : The Book of Fantastic Literature2 reviews Alberto Manguel Vintage Canada, 1992 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 from slow creepers like Julio Cortazar's unsettling "House Taken Over" and Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow," to more ...             The Library at Night10 reviews 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 found instead. This is a discursive history of libraries through various categories: Myth, Order, etc. with fascinating essays for ...             The Dictionary of Imaginary Places26 reviews Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi Key Porter Books, 1987 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 open it as a reference book to see if it will help illumine some question in your mind in regard to a book (it probably will), but ...             Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)1 review Alberto Manguel Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007 An erudite and impressive literary critique Alberto Manguel's latest volume does not contain the text of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Instead, It is a "biography" in the sense of being a commentary on how Homer's works have been translated, interpreted, adapted, vilified, and lauded for more than 2,500 years. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Manguel says, stand at the fountainhead, or primordial spring, of Western culture. Indeed, without these ...             The Secret Supper69 reviews Javier Sierra Atria, 2006 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 action. Even though the plot's quest for truth seems a little too fastidious at times, it certainly creates an enthralling and ...             With Borges1 review 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, being himself blind. For several years beginning in 1964, Manguel showed up at Borges's apartment at Maipú 994 regularly for ...             NEWS FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY CAME (FLAMINGO S.) ALBERTO MANGUEL FLAMINGO, 1992             A Reading Diary: A Year Of Favourite Books: A Year of Favourite Books6 reviews Alberto Manguel Canongate Books, 2006 `I like the idea of conversation being a window into one's heart or mind.' While travelling in Canada, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the particular novel he was reading (Goethe's `Elective Affinities') seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living. An article in a daily paper: a chance observation would suddenly be illuminated by a particular passage in the novel. He decided to keep a record of such moments by rereading a novel each ...             IN ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST: ANTHOLOGY OF MALE GAY FICTION (FLAMINGO ORIGINAL) ALBERTO MANGUEL FLAMINGO, 1994             The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture)1 review Alberto Manguel House of Anansi Press, 2007 `.. is it possible for stories to change us and the world we live in?' I am reading this book for the second time: there was too much for me to consider and integrate on one reading. Alberto Manguel looks at the rise of violent intolerance in our societies. As part of this, he invites the reader to look at what is written (by visionaries, poets, novelists and essayists) and presented visually (by filmmakers) about the building of societies. Under the following ...             Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge1 review various Clarkson N. Potter, 1987 A Decidedly Mixed Bag Revenge is a theme that has always fascinated and beguiled me, so several years ago I bought this book in order that it's tales might perhaps quell any demons within. The 18 stories' authors are a good blend of the long-dead and still breathing, the eminent and the obscure, mostly Western, but not all. The famous Lord Dunsany starts things off with an exquisite--if harmless--story to set the ...             The Life of Numbers Antonio J. Duran; Georges Ifrah; Alberto Manguel AK Peters, Ltd., 2006 This book masterfully illustrates the life course of numbers, taking the reader on a walk through a museum of historical artifacts, manuscripts, andworks of art. The authors recount how numbers lived in now extinct civilizations, with photographs of archaeological remains, Roman coins, preromanic manuscripts, incunabula; how people learned to use numbers to count, showing Renaissance mercantile arithmetic books; and how numbers evolved into the ...             Logotopia: The Library in Architecture Art and the Imagination Ray Bradbury, Alberto Manguel Cambridge Galleries / ABC Art Books Canada, 2008 Why are libraries such desirable commissions for contemporary architects and the frequent source of inspiration for artists and writers through the ages? LOGOTOPIA - the ancient Greek for word place - explores the library through architecture, art, and literature. With an astonishing multidisciplinary approach, these original writings examine both ancient and contemporary libraries - notably Egypt's Biblioteca Alexandria and Japan's Library of a ...             Penguin Book Of Summer Stories (Canadian Trade Paperback Edition) ed. Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel Penguin Canada, 2007             Bulfinch's Mythology (Modern Library Paperbacks)17 reviews Thomas Bulfinch Modern Library, 1998 Highly recommended For those who enjoy the study of mythology, this is one of the most important collections ever. Bulfinch's myths are a delight to read, and, as he tells us in his intro, these stories provide us with the framework for all of western culture and art. For those who are drawn, this one is highly recommended.              search for books alberto, another, anthology, architecture, biography, bulfinch, canadian, changed, christmas, country, dictionary, edition, fantastic, favourite, flamingo, imaginary, imagination, lecture, literature, logotopia, manguel, mythology, numbers, original, paperback, paperbacks, penguin, pictures, revenge, stevenson books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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