Genres > Non-fiction > Literary

  • DNA

    NON FICTION, 2004

    Jorge Lanata

  • Argentinians

    NON FICTION, 2003

    Jorge Lanata

  • The Library at Night

    NON FICTION. 2006

    Alberto Manguel

    The Library at Night is Manguel’s most important book since A History of Reading . This time, Manguel attempts to answer the question: why do we believe that we can organize the universe?...

  • At the Mad Hatter's Table

    ESSAY, 2006

    Alberto Manguel

    The title of this book refers to the famous Erasmus essay. For him, madness, that “joyful aberration of the mind,” explained the many nonsensical activities in which humans get...

  • With Borges

    NON FICTION , 2004

    Alberto Manguel

     “There is a vast group of people who once read out loud to Borges: little Boswells who are often unaware of the others but who collectively maintain the memory of one of the most lucid...

  • A Reading Diary

    NON FICTION, 2004

    Alberto Manguel

    While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was stuck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's  Elective Affinities ) seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living....

  • Reading Pictures

    NON FICTION, 2000

    Alberto Manguel

    "After all, every picture is a history of love and hate when read from the appropriate angle", wrote Leopoldo Salas-Nicanor in 1731, and in this marvellously illuminating book Alberto Manguel sets...

  • Kipling: A Brief Biography

    NON FICTION, 1998

    Alberto Manguel

    Best known for his Jungle Books and his Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling was a complex and fascinating writer. Born in Bombay, sent to the England of his parents at the age of five and left for...

  • A History of Reading

    NON FICTION, 1996

    Alberto Manguel

    1998 PRIX MÉDICIS From clay tablets to CD-ROM, from book thieves to book burners, bibliophiles, book fools and saints, this discursive essay (with 140 illustrations) on the mysteries...

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