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Literary Criticism

Fabulous Monsters Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300255355, ISBN: HB: 9780300247381, Yale University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.

Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love...

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Packing My Library An Elegy and Ten Digressions

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300244526, ISBN: HB: 9780300219333, Yale University Press, June 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

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 ree...

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Fiction

Melancholy

Foldenyi Laszlo F., Wilkinson Tim, Manguel Alberto

ISBN: HB: 9780300167481, Yale University Press, June 2016
384 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time". Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to...

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Literary Criticism

Curiosity

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300219807, Yale University Press, May 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different...

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Fiction

Please Talk to Me Selected Stories

Heker Liliana, Manguel Alberto, France Miranda

ISBN: PB: 9780300198041, Yale University Press, July 2015
224 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her short stories, Liliana Heker has repeatedly received major literary awards in her native Argentina. Her work has some of the dark humor of Saki or Roald Dahl, and her versatility and range have earned her a...

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Reader on Reading

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300172089, Yale University Press, July 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 black&white illus.

In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading", argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in...

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