Alberto Manguel has written at least 68 books. Their most popular book is A History of Reading with 44 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.
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.”
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[1]: http://www.atelieraldente.de/manguel_0h4/documents/Ackroyd%20The%20Library%20at%20Night.pdf
1996 • 44 Readers • 372 pages • 4
2006 • 32 Readers • 355 pages • 4.5
1980 • 15 Readers • 776 pages • 5
2004 • 9 Readers • 329 pages • 3
2010 • 8 Readers
2007 • 6 Readers • 176 pages • 2.7
2004 • 6 Readers • 205 pages • 4.5
2018 • 6 Readers • 146 pages • 3
1938 • 6 Readers • 160 pages • 4.3
2008 • 5 Readers • 224 pages
1983 • 5 Readers • 967 pages
1984 • 5 Readers • 360 pages
4 Readers
2015 • 4 Readers • 377 pages • 3
1981 • 3 Readers • 3.5
2004 • 2 Readers • 138 pages
1926 • 2 Readers • 200 pages
1613 • 2 Readers • 149 pages
1996 • 2 Readers • 208 pages
1998 • 2 Readers • 192 pages
2019 • 2 Readers • 230 pages
15 Books That Changed the World
2007 • 2 Readers • 294 pages
15 Books That Changed the World
2007 • 2 Readers • 308 pages
2018 • 2 Readers
2018 • 1 Reader • 128 pages
2014 • 1 Reader • 48 pages • 4
1996 • 1 Reader • 384 pages
1997 • 1 Reader • 68 pages
1980 • 1 Reader • 755 pages
1996 • 1 Reader • 568 pages • 5
1992 • 1 Reader • 967 pages
2018 • 1 Reader
2016 • 1 Reader • 80 pages
1984 • 1 Reader • 160 pages
1914 • 1 Reader • 238 pages • 5
1998 • 1 Reader • 281 pages
#2 of 1 in Black Water
1990 • 1 Reader • 941 pages
1985 • 1 Reader • 222 pages
1837 • 1 Reader • 96 pages • 3
2004 • 1 Reader • 228 pages • 4
2000 • 1 Reader
2013 • 1 Reader
2006 • 1 Reader • 304 pages
2018 • 1 Reader • 164 pages
15 Books That Changed the World
2007 • 1 Reader • 3
2002 • 1 Reader • 68 pages • 4
2006 • 1 Reader • 211 pages
2013 • 1 Reader • 148 pages
2006 • 1 Reader • 336 pages • 4
2015 • 1 Reader • 408 pages • 4
2008 • 1 Reader • 165 pages
1980 • 1 Reader • 454 pages
2004 • 1 Reader • 253 pages • 4
2000 • 1 Reader • 337 pages • 3
1 Reader • 390 pages
2022 • 1 Reader • 174 pages
2006 • 1 Reader • 304 pages • 5
2005 • 552 pages
2007 • 143 pages
1996
1987 • 314 pages
2023 • 255 pages
1980 • 998 pages