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The Solitudes
An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time.A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora …
El viajero, la torre y la larva
Ésta obra por primera vez traducida al español, nos invita a analizar "el acto de leer" a través del uso de metáforas donde el lector es un viajero dentro del libro que cual mundo, …
A Reader on Reading
An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George …
Into The Looking-Glass Wood
By 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 …
Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may …
With Borges
In Buenos Aires, 1964, a blind writer in his sixties approaches a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asking if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer …
Melancholy
A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most …
History Of Reading
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You …
Cut Stones and Crossroads
We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour and good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an …
Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered …