BOOKS by Alberto Manguel

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 4

sort by

1	History of Reading more books like this by A Manguel This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expectations of the reader, acting alongside the ... see all copies from £4.44! new only from £8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Library at Night more books like this by Alberto Manguel see all copies from £17.51! new only from £17.51!
3	The Dictionary of Imaginary Places more books like this by Alberto Manguel Throughout the ages, writers have created an astonishing diversity of imaginary places, worlds of enchantment, horror and delight. This guidebook takes the reader on a tour of more than 1200 imaginary cities, islands, countries, and contintents, from Homer to the late 1990s. Places visited include Atlantis, Dracula's Castle, Middle Earth, ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £26.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic more books like this by A Manguel This volume contains brief descriptions--including approximate geographical location, relevant wildlife, and climate conditions--for over 1200 of the world most well-know fictional settings--everywhere from Tolkien's Middle Earth and Crichton's Jurassic Park to Coleridge's Xanadu and Defoe's Speranza (where Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked). ... see all copies from £8.77! new only from £17.22! \| first editions
5	Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic more books like this by Alberto Manguel, Martha Schueneman (Editor) The original Black Water was hailed by the Washington Post as "a celebration of nightmarish imagination". Now master anthologist Alberto Manguel assembles 70 more hypnotic tales from such writers as Julian Barnes, Joseph Conrad, V.S. Naipaul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.B. White, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Elizabeth Bowen. see all copies from £6.21! first editions
6	Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World more books like this by Alberto Manguel, Andre Bernard (Editor) Manguel, one of the preeminent writers on the pleasures of reading, here offers 23 essays on his own experiences between the covers of his favorite books, looking fondly at authors such as Borges, Cortazar, and Chesterton. He also writes of his political interests, his bibliophilia, and his childhood. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £10.48! \| first editions
7	Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate more books like this by Alberto Manguel This work sets out to draw us into the storied world of pictures and paintings. Taking a handful of images, the author explores how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent: from the secret canvases of the Renaissance artist to Picasso's "Weeping Woman". The author does not attempt to devise a systematic ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £12.86! \| first editions
8	A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books more books like this by Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel, the Argentinean writer and critic, roams around the world and thinks about what he is reading. In these thoughtful appreciations, he ponders writers as diverse as H.G. Wells and Mavis Gallant, Conan Doyle and Goethe, Margaret Atwood and Sei Shonagon. He also makes offbeat observations, provides the origin of the word "nostalgia," ... see all copies from £6.21! new only from £8.97! \| first editions
9	The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories more books like this by Alberto Manguel (Editor) Internationally acclaimed anthologist Manguel offers this enjoyable collection of 23 Christmas stories from across the globe with tales by such master storytellers as Alice Munroe, Graham Greene, Truman Capote, and John Cheever. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £5.52! \| first editions
10	Into the looking glass wood more books like this by Alberto Manguel This collection of essays addresses the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explores the consequences of society's betrayal of its readers and writers. Amongst the writers who feature in the book are Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, G.K. Chesterton, St Augustine and Goethe. see all copies from £11.04! new only from £15.44! \| first editions
11	Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography more books like this by Alberto Manguel No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is no little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, brace Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are ... see all copies from £10.34! new only from £12.66!
12 view cover	The Merciful Women more books like this by Federico Andahazi, Alberto Manguel (Translator) It is Switzerland, 1816. Percy Shelley and his wife Mary, and Byron's physician Dr Polidori are ensconced in the Villa Diodati. Polidori enters a Faustian pact with Annette Legrand, where she will produce a vampire tale for him. What can he, in return, offer this ghostly female predator? see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.70! \| first editions
13	Other Fires more books like this by Alberto Manguel (Editor) A powerful, haunting, vivid, and provocative collection of short fiction by Latin American women. see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.76! \| first editions
14	Black Water Bk of Fantastic Li more books like this by Alberto Manguel (Editor) see all copies from £14.69! first editions
15 view cover	Stevenson Under the Palm Trees more books like this by Alberto Manguel 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 to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home. As Stevenson's meetings with the tantalizingly nebulous missionary ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	News from a Foreign Country Came more books like this by Manguel This is a portrait of an apparently ordinary family and explores what is known, unknown and unknowable between close relatives. Set in Canada, in French colonial Algeria at the time of the struggle for independence, in Paris of the 1960s and in Argentina, this novel brings recent history alive. see all copies from £2.13! new only from £10.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
17	God's spies : stories in defiance of oppression more books like this by Alberto Manguel see all copies from £5.52! new only from £10.90! \| first editions
18	Unreasonable Hours more books like this by Julio Cortazar, Alberto Manguel (Translator) A collection of eight stories never before published in English which combine--as all of Cortazar's stories do--realism with the fantastic, and display Cortazar's mastery at describing the ordinary moment. These stories show the heroism required when ordinary people struggle with the impossible. see all copies from £9.78!
19 view cover	The Merciful Women Merciful Women more books like this by Federico Andahazi, Alberto Manguel (Translator) An acclaimed Argentine writer retells the story of Percy and Mary Shelley in the summer of 1816, when the Shelleys, along with Lord Byron, vacationed at a Swiss villa and Mary wrote FRANKENSTEIN. Told in a mock-Gothic style, the novel takes some outrageous liberties with history but recreates the times with tongue-in-cheek humor and mock ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £5.52! \| first editions
20 view cover	By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp more books like this by Alberto Maguel, Alberto Manguel (Editor) see all copies from £5.52! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
21 view cover	Mothers & daughters : an anthology more books like this by Alberto Manguel Turning his inspired anthologizing skills to two subjects we can all relate to, celebrated writer and editor Alberto Manguel offers his most fascinating literary collections yet. Manguel brings his quirky sensibility and instinct for exceptional writing to a core realm of human experience, presenting an outstanding array of international voices ... see all copies from £5.52! new only from £10.66! \| first editions
22	Evening Games Stories of Par & more books like this by Alberto Manguel see all copies from £1.38! new only from £26.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Soho Square more books like this by Alberto Manguel (Editor) The third annual miscellany which reflects an international selection of work by poets and storytellers from different parts of the world. It includes contributions by Gunter Grass, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Richard Ford, Julio Cortazar and Friedrich Durrenmatt. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £21.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	In Another Part of the Forest:: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction more books like this by Alberto Manguel, Craig Stephenson An authoritative collection of short stories on male homosexuality by gay and non-gay writers, including William Faulkner, Anne Beattie, Yukio Mishima, Daphne Du Maurier, Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sherwood Anderson, and more. see all copies from £5.52! new only from £6.41! \| first editions
25 view cover	With Borges more books like this by Alberto Manguel In 1964, a blind writer (and voracious reader) in his sixties approached a sixteen-year old bookstore clerk in Buenos Aires and asked if the latter would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The boy accepted, and did so for four years, bringing books by Kipling, Stevenson, Henry James and many others alive three or four times a week. ... see all copies from £2.25! new only from £8.39! \| first editions

Page 1 of 4: 1 2 3 4 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.