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Literary Criticism

Curiosity

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(42 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

$18.00 Price verified one day ago
Biographies & Memoirs

Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Jewish Lives)

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(13 reviews)

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 Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204)... See More

$12.99 Price verified 5 hours ago
Humor & Entertainment

Bride of Frankenstein (BFI Film Classics)

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(5 reviews)

Manguel gives a detailed and highly sensitive account of the film's felicities of inventive film-making. He also traces the literary roots of the Frankenstein myth, the creation of a living being by a man usurping the powers... See More

$9.99 $14.84 Save 33% Price verified 11 hours ago
Literary Criticism

The City of Words (The CBC Massey Lectures)

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(5 reviews)

In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism... See More

$14.95 Price verified 3 hours ago
Literature & 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

$12.46 Price verified 12 hours ago
Literary Criticism

A History of Reading

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(206 reviews)

A book for book lovers by a true lover of books! 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... See More

$16.99 Price verified 22 hours ago
Literary Criticism

The Library at Night

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(139 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

$13.99 Price verified one hour ago
Politics & Social Sciences

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

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(58 reviews)

A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in... See More

$11.99 Price verified one day ago
Literary Criticism

A Reader on Reading

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(34 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

$14.99 Price verified 15 hours ago
Literary Fiction

All Men Are Liars

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(10 reviews)

In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew -- or thought they knew -- Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of... See More

$7.99 Price verified one day ago
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All Men are Liars

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(2 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

$10.33 Price verified 23 hours ago
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