Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Essays on Words and the World
By the award-winning author of A History of ReadingFor me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author's intentions and beyond the reader's hopes, a book can make us better and wiser.Through personal stories and literary reflections, in a style rich in humour and gentle erudition, Manguel leads us, the readers, to reflect upon the pleasures and responsibilities of reading, and the links that exist between the world we…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-36368-8
- EAN: 9780307363688
- Produktnummer: 15730353
- Verlag: Knopf Canada
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'256 KB
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Alberto Manguel is internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor. He was recently awarded France's Prix Médicis for his bestselling and much loved A History of Reading. This Fall Knopf Canada reissues his classic,The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.
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