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Alberto Manguel

Also known as: MANGUEL,ALBERTO, manguel-alberto

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A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008 There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence, whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit. Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said, “affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.” [Read the whole review](PDF)

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We have been in our house in France for just over a year, and already I have to leave, to visit my family in Buenos Aires.

— from A reading diary

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Ports of call

1998

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A Jewish woman and a Muslim man are brought together in World War II France by their work in the Resistance. After the war they marry and return to the Middle East, only to be separated by the Arab-Israeli War. By a Lebanese writer, author of Rock of Tanios. Description: 197 p. ; 24 cm. Other Titles: Echelles du Levant. Responsibility: Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Alberto Manguel.

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The dictionary of imaginary places

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"From Atlantis to Xanadu, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own." "Most every fanciful world from books and film is included: Shangri-La and El Dorado are here, as is Utopia, Tolkien's Middle-earth, and Carroll's Wonderland, as well as the Beatles' Pepperland, the Marx Brothers' Freedonia, and a strange little town called Stepford. The history and behavior of the inhabitants of these lands are described in detail and supplemented by more than 220 maps and illustrations that depict the lay of the land in a host of elsewheres." "Now brought up-to-date with dozens of new entries for such places as Jurassic Park, Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories, and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, this volume is even more comprehensive and entertaining."--BOOK JACKET.

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The Oxford book of Canadian ghost stories

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