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History & Criticism

Curiosity

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(43 reviews)

Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of... See More

£12.99 £15.19 Save 14% Price verified 6 minutes ago
History & Criticism

The Library at Night

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(129 reviews)

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries," he says... See More

£8.79 £10.99 Save 20% Price verified 8 hours ago
Travel & Tourism

A Reading Diary: A Year Of Favourite Books

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(16 reviews)

While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a... See More

£7.33 Price verified one day ago
Historical Fiction

Stevenson Under The Palm Trees

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(8 reviews)

In 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... See More

£5.99 £7.19 Save 17% Price verified 14 hours ago
History & Criticism

The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère) (The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series Book 3)

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Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct... See More

£9.38 £9.76 Price verified 3 hours ago
History & Criticism

A Reader on Reading

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(23 reviews)

In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world... See More

£12.34 £14.99 Save 18% Price verified 6 hours ago
World Literature

All Men are Liars

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(6 reviews)

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 endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death: that of... See More

£6.66 Price verified 17 hours ago
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