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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 was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest literary minds; the b
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptati
A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe 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
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of books and reading. Vintage Manguela pleasure for his many
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 revolut
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed , from one of the worlds foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (11381204), was born in Córdoba, Spain. The gift
This collection of 20 classic Canadian mystery and detective stories, spanning almost a century and a half, will delight readers. Death in a convent, two corpses in a neighbouring house, a mystery writer plotting his next novel, with his wife in the trial
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 Steiner has called the Casanova of reading, argues that the activity of reading,