The Dictionary of Imaginary Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dictionary of Imaginary Places write by Alberto Manguel. This book was released on 2000. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes and visualizes over 1,200 magical lands found in literature and film, discussing such exotic realms as Atlantis, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and Oz.
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dictionary of Imaginary Places write by Alberto Manguel. This book was released on 2001. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the ages, writers have created an astonishing diversity of imaginary places, worlds of enchantment, horror and delight. This monumental book, now more comprehensive than ever, unites them in a single volume. A national bestseller when first published in 1980, this unique and endlessly entertaining guidebook takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 imaginary cities, islands, countries, and continents, all invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. From Atlantis to Dracula's Castle, Middle Earth to Baskerville Hall, Utopia to Earthsea, here are worlds enough and more for every reader, fantasy fan, and passionate browser. And now it includes dozens of invaluable new entries and illustrations, including Eco's Abbey of the Rose, and Peter Carey's Etica. Among the lands are those of Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, John Lennon, Gilbert & Sullivan and Graham Greene. Written with wit and brilliance, the book is also a visual delight with more than 200 original illustrations and maps by Graham Greenfield, and James Cook, and new illustrations by award-winning artist Ken Nutt.
All Men Are Liars
All Men Are Liars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Men Are Liars write by Alberto Manguel. This book was released on 2012-06-05. All Men Are Liars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment. In All Men Are Liars, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.
Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Into The Looking-Glass Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Into The Looking-Glass Wood write by Alberto Manguel. This book was released on 2011-02-04. Into The Looking-Glass Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the award-winning author of A History of Reading "For me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author's intentions and beyond the reader's hopes, a book can make us better and wiser." Through personal stories and literary reflections, in a style rich in humour and gentle erudition, Manguel leads us, the readers, to reflect upon the pleasures and responsibilities of reading, and the links that exist between the world we live in, and the words we live amongst. Into the Looking-Glass Wood is a voyage into the subversive heart of words - a voyage fired by the author's humanity and extraordinary breadth of vision.
An Atlas of Imaginary Places
An Atlas of Imaginary Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Atlas of Imaginary Places write by Mia Cassany. This book was released on 2021-09-07. An Atlas of Imaginary Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paperback, this dreamy, gorgeously detailed picture book leads children on a journey to impossible but wonderfully imagined places. Upside-down mountains, volcanoes that spew bubble gum, a gentle humpback whale keeping an entire city afloat. These and other wonderful worlds may not exist on Earth, but elsewhere--who knows? Each spread of this captivating book invites readers on a fantastic voyage. Ana de Lima's whimsical, softly colored illustrations are filled with surprising details that reward close examination, while Mia Cassany's soothing narrator is a nameless fellow traveler. A jungle where the animals exchange stripes, spots, and markings each time they sneeze, an archipelago made up of dessert-shaped islands, and a lighthouse so tall you can draw a new galaxy with your finger are just some of the wild places to visit. Perfect for before-bed reading, or daytime dreaming, this stunningly illustrated book will delight young readers and encourage them to conjure their own imaginary places.
