Libros de Alberto Manguel

Viajero, La Torre Y La Larva, El

• Ésta obra por primera vez traducida al español, nos invita a analizar "el acto de leer" a través del uso de metáforas donde el lector es un viajero dentro del libro que cual mundo, extenso, peligroso, salvaje, abierto...

Uma História Da Curiosidade

Dicionário De Lugares Imaginários

Library At Night

• 384 páginas
• A personal meditation on the meaning of libraries, conducting a unique library tour taking in everything from childhood bookshelves to the 'complete' library of the internet, the doomed libary of Alexandria to the private collections of Charles...

The Secret Supper

• Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message, which he is determined to decode....

A History Of Reading

• 384 páginas
• "What Alberto Manguel has given us is his personal reponse to books and reading in the form of an anthology comprising mythology, anecdote, theology, history and autobiography.. I finished "A History of Reading" with a sense of gratitude...

Reading Pictures

• 352 páginas
• This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily...