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Resistance Alberto Manguel 9780300282498
Booksplease Price: $27.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300282498Author Alberto ManguelFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.28A 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,... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel 9780006546818
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.49This 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... -
Stevenson Under The Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35In 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... -
Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography by Alberto Manguel 9780300272475
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.22A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer's work No one knows whether Homer was a... -
The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by Alberto Manguel 9781800175808
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great... -
A Reading Diary: A Year Of Favourite Books by Alberto Manguel 9781841958217
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70While 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... -
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81A 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... -
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $49.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156008723Author Gianni GuadalupiFormat PaperbackPage Count 776Imprint
The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cecite d'Homere) by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.28Rich 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 Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age? by Paul Socken 9780773542501
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all...
By the Rivers of Babylon by Antonio Lobo Antunes 9780300233414
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers "One of the essential writers of our tormented times."-Alberto Manguel,...
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov 9781399623131
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84'Compulsively readable' New York Times'Utterly original' Alberto ManguelIn the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.Our unnamed narrator is not well...
PN Review 273 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173729
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The September-October 2023 issue. During 2023 PN Review is celebrating its jubilee. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry,...
The Writing School: A memoir Miranda France 9781472157348
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $16.21'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written and structured, compelling, wise and fabulously readable' Lissa...
PN Review 284 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174740
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The July-August 2025 issue. PN Review 284 features Alberto Manguel's lecture celebrating the National Library of France, Sasha Dugdale on Moscow and the literature of this and last century, Hal Coase...
The Architecture of Fear by Sandro William Junqueira 9781035431175
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Brilliant, inventive and marvellously written' ALBERTO MANGUELA world without walls, without curtains, is not believable.Because there is no world without fears.Walls, curtains, are the architecture...
PN Review 263 by Michael Schmidt 9781800172821
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The January-February 2022 issue. Major essay by Alberto Manguel on translating Dante. Sasha Dugdale's radical new translation of Osip Mandelstam, with an important commentary by Andrew Kahn. ...
The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their...
Bartleby And Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of...
PN Review 266 Michael Schmidt 9781800172852
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98The July-August 2022 issue. Major autobiographical essay by Alberto Manguel. Fleur Adcock writes an elegy for her long-time editor. James Campbell takes us on a tour of the TLS and his...
Book of Wills Reem Ghanayem 9781836750000
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'To write a will under siege is not surrender - it's defiance. It says: I existed. I felt. I belonged. I am not yours to erase.' - Reem Ghanayem In Book of Wills, eighteen Gazan writers share...
The Writing School: A memoir by Miranda France 9781472157355
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one sitting' Alberto...
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav GhoshNOW A MAJOR FILM ON NETFLIX In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who...
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment...
The Written World and the Unwritten World by Italo Calvino
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38'An indispensable writer ... Calvino, possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams to life' Salman RushdieThe difference between life and...
The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.43Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory "Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon's most complex work to date." -Malcolm...
Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marina Warner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and...
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout...
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.68Eva Peron entered immortality on 26th July, 1952. The bizarre after-life of her embalmed body - hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected, repatriated - echoed her equally...
A Blue Tale and Other Stories Marguerite Yourcenar 9780226836898
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $22.85This story collection is a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with Marguerite Yourcenar's works. Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is not only a delight...
The Impostor: and Other Stories by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride...
The Occasional Virgin by Hanan al-Shaykh
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.81Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it's only on their rarely snatched...
Soldiers of Salamis Javier Cercas 9780857059192
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are...
The Whispering Muse: Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023 Sjon 9781529342994
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.84WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023'Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.' TLSA master storyteller, Sjon weaves together Greek and Nordic myths with the...![The Children Act by Ian McEwan 9781784705572 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9675368/10692088/9781784705572__03806.1781297651.jpg?c=1 "The Children Act by Ian McEwan 9781784705572 [USED COPY]")
The Children Act by Ian McEwan 9781784705572 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.03Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the...
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.43With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's...
The Pendragon Legend by Len Rix 9781805330660
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, Guardian At an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr...
The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.25BERLIN, 1932 Intelligent, artistic and precocious, fourteen-year-old Sophie Riedesel dreams of nothing more than becoming an actress and spending time with her beloved Jewish neighbour, Isaac Zarco...
Between Friends by Amos Oz
Booksplease Price: $27.64Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very...