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Alberto Manguel
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[2018]. | Yale University Press | 146 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"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 France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself...
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2007 | Atlantic Monthly Press | x, 285 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge 880 Man |
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No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is 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, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods-are familiar to most people because they are so pervasive. They have fed our imaginations for over two and a half millennia,...
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2008, c2006 | Yale University Press | 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge 027 Man Main 027 Man Southside 027 Man |
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Inspired by the process of creating a library for his home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide of...
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c2010 | Yale University Press | xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main 028.9 Man |
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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 -- building societies around sets of common values -- seems like a good idea. But something is going wrong. Manguel suggests we should look at what stories have to teach us about society.With wit and erudition, Manguel looks at...
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Rich 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 result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world...
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading....
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2006 | 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. | Atria Books | 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Fiction Sierra, J Southside Fiction Sierra, J |
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c1983 | 1st American ed. | C.N. Potter : | xix, 967 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main 808.83 Bla |
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2006 | 1. ed. | Mondadori | 322 p. ; 22 cm. | Español | On Shelf
Southside Spanish Fiction Shelley, M |
11) The library book
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[2017] | First edition. | Aperture | 231 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm. | English |
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Schiff's photographs capture the shifting architectural styles and missions of the library, from the very earliest American libraries to the modernist masterpieces of Louis I. Kahn and others. The sweeping 360-degree panoramas help the viewer maintain the original vision of the architects. In the introductory essay, Manguel considers the story of the library in America, its evolving architecture and cultural role, and how the American model reflects...
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