{"product_id":"a-reader-on-reading-by-alberto-manguel","title":"A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eA Reader on Reading\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eby Alberto Manguel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eYale University Press, 2010\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition\u003cbr\u003eBlack and white illustrations in text, \u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780300159820\u003cbr\u003eHardcover, dustjacket\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e: Near Fine\u003cbr\u003eminor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to corners and covers.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eDustjacket very good with minor chips, Mylar covered (see photographs)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #1f2124; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e“When the world becomes incomprehensible … when we feel unguided and bewildered, we seek a place in which comprehension (or faith in comprehension) has been set down in words.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThus writes internationally acclaimed author Alberto Manguel in the thirty-nine reflections on the joy and solace of literature that make up A Reader on Reading.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eFor Manguel, the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e“We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything” he writes: “In the landscape, in the skies, in the faces of others, and, of course, in the images and words that our species creates.”\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIn A Reader on Reading, the narratives of Jonah, Homer, and Dante; topics ranging from Pinocchio to comics, from Borges to Che Guevara; and especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice books guide Manguel’s nuanced understanding to him as a boy, the Alice books remain his most steadfast and spirited literary companions.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morgan's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44861316497478,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2727\/7942\/files\/AReaderonReading_1.jpg?v=1775877931","url":"https:\/\/www.morgansrarebooks.com\/products\/a-reader-on-reading-by-alberto-manguel","provider":"Morgan's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}