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Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World

Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World

by Alberto Manguel (Author)

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    Hardcover 1999

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Synopsis

This collection of essays addresses the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explores the consequences of society's betrayal of its readers and writers. Amongst the writers who feature in the book are Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, G.K. Chesterton, St Augustine and Goethe.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 18 Mar 1999
ISBN 10: 0747543429
ISBN 13: 9780747543428
Book Overview: Alberto Manguel is also author of A History of Reading and the novel News From a Foreign Country Came .

Media Reviews
These are rich and various essays, ripe with interest. Manguel says that what matters most to literature is the existence of judicious readers; this collection will help to create more such. -The Financial Times Splendid and eloquently expressed . . . Manguel's writing at its strongest and most original. -The Times Literary Supplement Witty and elegant, a nice piece of book-making. -The Sunday Times (London)