Author:Manguel, Alberto

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A Reading Diary

By: Alberto Manguel

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Knopf Canada: January 2004

Seller ID: 18227

ISBN: 0676975909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The 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 reread twelve of the books he likes best, and to share with us, his "gentle readers," his impressions and experiences in doing so. We travel with him as he leaves Canada to set up house in a medieval presbytery in France, visits his childhood home i...
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Gates Of Paradise, The: An Anthology: of Erotic Short Fiction

By: Manguel, Alberto

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Three Rivers Press: April 1993

Seller ID: 6376

ISBN: 0517880504

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Reading Pictures : A History of Love and Hate (ART APPRECIATION, ART CRITICISM, ART HISTORY))

By: Manguel, Alberto

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Knopf Canada: January 2000

Seller ID: 41522

ISBN: 0676971326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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 vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or dow...
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