TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manguel,Alberto
TI  - A reader on reading
SN  - 030015982X
AV  - Z1003 .M2925 2010
U1  - 028.9 MAN 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Haven [Conn.]
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Manguel, Alberto
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - sears
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index; A reader in the looking-glass wood -- Room for the shadow -- On being Jewish -- Meanwhile, in another part of the forest -- The further off from England -- Homage to Proteus -- Borges in love -- Borges and the longed-for Jew -- Faking it -- The death of Che Guevara -- The blind bookkeeper -- The perseverance of truth -- AIDS and the poet -- The full stop -- In praise of words -- A brief history of the page --The voice that says "I" -- Final answers -- What song the sirens sang -- Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader -- How Pinocchio learned to read -- Candide in Sanssouci -- The gates of paradise -- Time and the doleful knight -- Saint Augustine's computer -- Reading white for black -- The secret sharer -- Honoring Enoch Soames -- Jonahand the whale -- The legend of the dodos -- In memoriam -- God's spies -- Once again, Troy -- Art and blasphemy -- At the mad hatter's table -- Notes towards a definition of the ideal library -- The library of the wandering Jew -- The library as home -- The end of reading; Library Journal; Pub Weekly; Library Journal, March 2010; Pub Weekly, February 2010; Adult; Adult; Follett Library Resources
N2  - A collection of essays from Alberto Manguel, an Argentine-born Canadian author, in which he discusses his views on literature and the activity of reading
ER  -