Alberto Manguel

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⭐.

Author Bio

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

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
A History of Reading Alberto Manguel	4	11 reads
The Library at Night Alberto Manguel	4.5	6 reads
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic Alberto Manguel Gianni Guadalupi	5	1 read
The Secret Supper Alberto Manguel (Translator) Javier Sierra	3	4 reads
A Reader on Reading Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
The City of Words Alberto Manguel	2.67	3 reads
A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books Alberto Manguel	4.5	2 reads
Packing My Library Alberto Manguel	3	4 reads
Oriental Tales Marguerite Yourcenar Alberto Manguel (Translator)	4.33	4 reads
All Men Are Liars Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Black water Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Melancholy László F. Földényi Tim Wilkinson (Translator)	0	0 reads
With Borges Alberto Manguel	0	1 read
Curiosity Alberto Manguel	3	2 reads
Mishima: A Vision of the Void Marguerite Yourcenar Alberto Manguel (Translator)	3.5	2 reads
The Moldavian Pimp Edgardo Cozarinsky	0	0 reads
Tyrant Banderas Ramón M. del Valle-Inclán Peter Bush (Translator)	0	0 reads
The Solitudes: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text Luis de Góngora y Argote	0	1 read
Ports of Call Amin Maalouf Alberto Manguel (Translator)	0	0 reads
The Merciful Women The Merciful Women Federico Andahazi Alberto Manguel (Translator)	0	0 reads
Fabulous Monsters Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Homer's the "Iliad and the "Odyssey" Homer's the "Iliad and the "Odyssey" Alberto Manguel	0	1 read
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography Alberto Manguel	0	1 read
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions Alberto Manguel	0	2 reads
Vivere con i libri: Un'elegia e dieci digressioni Alberto Manguel Duccio Sacchi (Translator)	0	0 reads
O Senhor Walser e a Floresta O Senhor Walser e a Floresta Gonçalo M. Tavares	0	1 read
El regreso de Ulises Alberto Manguel Max	4	1 read
تاريخ القراءة Alberto Manguel ألبرتو مانغويل سامي شمعون (Translator)	0	0 reads
Bride of Frankenstein Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places Alberto Manguel Gianni Guadalupi	0	0 reads
โลกในมือนักอ่าน Alberto Manguel กษมา สัตยาหุรักษ์ (Translator) ดนยา กนกระย้า (Translator)	5	1 read
Black Water Black Water : The Book of Fantastic Literature Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Je remballe ma bibliothèque Je remballe ma bibliothèque: Une élégie et quelques digressions Alberto Manguel Christine Le Bœuf (Translator)	0	1 read
Leer	0	0 reads
O Senhor Brecht e o Sucesso O Senhor Brecht e o Sucesso Gonçalo M. Tavares	0	1 read
In the Dutch Mountains Cees Nooteboom Adrienne Dixon (Translator)	0	1 read
Fog: A Novel Miguel de Unamuno Elena Barcia (Translator)	5	1 read
Into The Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World Alberto Manguel	0	1 read
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic Elizabeth Taylor Grace Amundson A.S. Byatt Ben Hecht Amos Tutuola Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Archibald Colquhoun Friedrich Dürrenmatt William Sansom Angus Wilson Kenzaburō Ōe Luigi Pirandello Liliana Heke Antonia White Rohinton Mistry Yevgeny Zamyatin Hortense Calisher Ann Bridge Joyce Marshall Eric McCormack Gabriel García Márquez Ethel Wilson James Stephens Leon Rooke William Goyen Tommaso Landolfi Boris Vian Alfonso Reyes Brett Balon J.D. Beresford Elizabeth Spencer Elizabeth Bowen Timothy Findley Geoffrey Drayton Wolfgang Hildesheimer Günter Grass Julian Barnes Bernard Malamud Isabel Allende Chen Xuanyou Peter Green Satyajit Ray Lion Feuchtwanger Yehuda Amichai Mircea Eliade V.S. Naipaul Isaac Bashevis Singer Sylvia Townsend Warner Hanns Heinz Ewers Dorothy K. Haynes	0	0 reads
Other Fires: Short Fiction By Latin American Women	0	0 reads
ביבליומאניה אנמרי בארטפלד (translator) מיכל שליו (translator)	3	1 read
Um Diário de Leituras Um Diário de Leituras: Treze Livros para Treze Meses Alberto Manguel	4	1 read
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
A Biblioteca à Noite Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Pożegnanie z biblioteką. Elegia z dziesięciorgiem napomknień Alberto Manguel Michał Tabaczyński (Translator)	0	0 reads
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography Alberto Manguel	3	1 read
Com Borges Alberto Manguel	4	1 read
Magic Land of Toys Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
O Leitor Como Metáfora: o Viajante, a Torre e a Traça Alberto Manguel José Geraldo Couto (Translator)	0	0 reads
De bibliotheek bij nacht: de liefde voor boeken en de kunst van het verzamelen Alberto Manguel Ton Heuvelmans (Translator)	4	1 read
Uma História da Curiosidade Alberto Manguel	4	1 read
Todos os homens são mentirosos Alberto Manguel Umbelina de Sousa (Translator)	0	0 reads
Dictionary of Imaginary Places Alberto Manguel Gianni Guadalupi	0	1 read
A Reading Diary Alberto Manguel	4	1 read
Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate Alberto Manguel Rubens Figueiredo (Translator) Rosaura Eichemberg (Translator) Cláudia Strauch (Translator)	3	1 read
Ler Imagens - Em que pensamos quando olhamos para arte Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Guia de Um Perplexo em Portugal Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
A biblioteca à noite Alberto Manguel	5	1 read
Contos de Horror do Século XIX	0	0 reads
Alle mensen liegen Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Forbidden Fruit: Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books from Dante to Harry Potter Pearce J. Carefoote	0	0 reads
Moja historia czytania Alberto Manguel Hanna Jankowska (Translator)	0	0 reads
The Penguin book of summer stories Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
La bibliothèque, la nuit Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge	0	0 reads
Maimonides Alberto Manguel	0	0 reads
Dicionário de Lugares Imaginários Alberto Manguel Gianni Guadalupi Carlos Vaz Marques (Translator) Ana Falcão Bastos (Translator)	0	0 reads