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Product Description: No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey-with their incomparable tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods-are familiar to most people because they are so pervasive...read more

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9781400133932 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 1, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature.

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9780660197296 | Unabridged edition (Cbc Radio Canada, November 15, 2007), cover price $39.95

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9788433974648 | Editorial Anagrama, November 15, 2007, cover price $44.90

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Product Description: Internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers an immensely enjoyable collection of 22 brilliant stories from across the globe, written under the merry canopy of Christmas. The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories features tales by the best master storytellers, including Alice Munro, John Cheever, Richard Ford, Anne Beattie,William Trevor,Muriel Spark, Paul Auster, Mavis Gallant, Alistair MacLeod, and Vladimir Nabokov...read more

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9780143054252 | Penguin Group Canada, October 16, 2007, cover price $24.20 | About this edition: Internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers an immensely enjoyable collection of 22 brilliant stories from across the globe, written under the merry canopy of Christmas.

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An analysis of the creation and influence of 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' that establishes how, these two poems have come to resonate throughout the world.

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9781843544029 | Atlantic Books, October 8, 2007, cover price $21.80 | About this edition: An analysis of the creation and influence of 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' that establishes how, these two poems have come to resonate throughout the world.

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An insightful analysis of the two great epic poems that have served as the cornerstone of Western literature traces the history of The Iliad and The Odyssey from their earliest origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their important legacy for Western culture.

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9780871139764 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, December 21, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An insightful analysis of the two great epic poems that have served as the cornerstone of Western literature traces the history of The Iliad and The Odyssey from their earliest origins, the colorful characters and events chronicling the Trojan War and its aftermath, and their important legacy for Western culture.

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9780802143822 | Grove Pr, March 3, 2009, cover price $14.00

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9781400153930 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 8, 2008), cover price $19.99
9781400103935 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, January 1, 2008), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: No one knows if there was a man named Homer, but there is little doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature.

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Product Description: A collection spanning the career of Don Coles, this compilation of personal essays and reviews combines published prose with vital new pieces that explore the genres of biography and translation. Summing up decades of reading and adventurous travel while investigating the influences on his writing, this assemblage presents Coles as one of Canada’s most incisive literary critics, revealing his unconventional assessments of Graham Greene, Thomas Mann, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Robert Frost, Albert Camus, George Orwell, and many others...read more
By Don Coles and Alberto Manguel (foreword by)

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9781550652222 | Vehicule Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection spanning the career of Don Coles, this compilation of personal essays and reviews combines published prose with vital new pieces that explore the genres of biography and translation.

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Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message, which he is determined to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table and, shockingly, the apostles are portraits of well-known heretics -- none of them depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo's greatest puzzle are right before your eyes....
By Alberto Manguel (trans)

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9781847390042 | Gardners Books, July 23, 2007, cover price $10.80
9781416543817 | Pocket Books, March 1, 2007, cover price $7.99
9780743292627 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, March 1, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Milan, 1497: Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, The Last Supper.

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Product Description: «,Existe un vasto grupo compuesto por todos aquellos que alguna vez le leyeron en voz alta a Borges: pequeños Boswells que raramente conocen la identidad de los otros pero que, de forma colectiva, mantienen la memoria de uno de los más cabales lectores del mundo (...read more

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9788420643410 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: «,Existe un vasto grupo compuesto por todos aquellos que alguna vez le leyeron en voz alta a Borges: pequeños Boswells que raramente conocen la identidad de los otros pero que, de forma colectiva, mantienen la memoria de uno de los más cabales lectores del mundo (.

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Erik Desmazieres is considered to be one of the finest French printmakers of his generation. This volume surveys the artist's earlier production from the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on Desmazieres imaginary places, through 80 prints and drawings. It also includes the artist's masterpiece 'The Temptation of St Anthony'.

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9788874394111 | Bilingual edition (5 Continents Editions, June 30, 2007), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Erik Desmazieres is considered to be one of the finest French printmakers of his generation.

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Product Description: Antoine Berence, un viejo ex oficial del Ejército francés, disfruta de su retiro, en Canadá, en compañía de su mujer y de su hija, Ana. Refinado, amante de la belleza y del arte,Berence tiene ya poco apegos. Su única preocupación es el melancólico mutismo de Marianne, su esposa, una mujer sensible por quien siente una verd...read more

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9788420645261 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Antoine Berence, un viejo ex oficial del Ejército francés, disfruta de su retiro, en Canadá, en compañía de su mujer y de su hija, Ana.

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Product Description: La biblioteca de noche no pretende ser una historia, plagada de fechas y nombres, ni un manual sobre bibliotecnología. Es una inmersión emotiva, amena y erudita, alentada por la curiosidad, sobre el atractivo de esos lugares que llamamos bibliotecas y el afán del hombre por coleccionar, en este caso libros...read more

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9788420647623 | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, January 30, 2007), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: La biblioteca de noche no pretende ser una historia, plagada de fechas y nombres, ni un manual sobre bibliotecnología.

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By Alberto Manguel and Michel Pintado (photographer)

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9780865651760 | Vendome Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $65.00

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Part memoir, part biography, and a celebration of the living quality of literature, the author's reflections on the works of Borges, and of the writers he admired, form a portrait of this enigmatic figure, and describe an important stage in the formation of a world-class reader.

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9781846590054 | Telegram, October 1, 2006, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Part memoir, part biography, and a celebration of the living quality of literature, the author's reflections on the works of Borges, and of the writers he admired, form a portrait of this enigmatic figure, and describe an important stage in the formation of a world-class reader.
9780863567131 | Al Saqi, April 1, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: “This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges’s magical worlds.

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An anthology of twenty-three holiday tales culled from writers around the world includes Alice Munroe's 'The Turkey Season,' John Cheever's 'Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor,' and Muriel Spark's 'The Leaf Sweeper.' 30,000 first printing.
By Alberto Manguel (editor)

Hardcover:

9780060888480 | Ecco Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An anthology of twenty-three holiday tales culled from writers around the world includes Alice Munroe's 'The Turkey Season,' John Cheever's 'Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor,' and Muriel Spark's 'The Leaf Sweeper.

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Product Description: This book masterfully illustrates the life course of numbers, taking the reader on a walk through a museum of historical artifacts, manuscripts, and works of art. The authors recount how numbers lived in now extinct civilizations, with photographs of archaeological remains, Roman coins, preromanic manuscripts, incunabula; how people learned to use numbers to count, showing Renaissance mercantile arithmetic books; and how numbers evolved into the Western counting system that we use today, with the first recorded usage of the current arithmetic symbols...read more

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9781568813257 | A K Peters Ltd, July 30, 2006, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This book masterfully illustrates the life course of numbers, taking the reader on a walk through a museum of historical artifacts, manuscripts, and works of art.

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The author of A History of Reading shares the results of his reading diary--notes kept on travel, public and private happenings, and relationships--all inspired or illuminated by his copious reading. Reprint.

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9780374247423 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author of A History of Reading shares the results of his reading diary--notes kept on travel, public and private happenings, and relationships--all inspired or illuminated by his copious reading.

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9780312424459 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, November 15, 2005), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author of A History of Reading shares the results of his reading diary--notes kept on travel, public and private happenings, and relationships--all inspired or illuminated by his copious reading.

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Product Description: Book by Manguel, Alberto

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9788420641416, titled "Leer imagenes / Read Images: Una Historia Privada Del Arte" | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Book by Manguel, Alberto

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9788420644301, titled "Breve guia de lugares imaginarios / Brief Guide of Imaginary Places" | Poc edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $43.95

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Product Description: In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr. Baker, turns his thoughts back to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home...read more

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9781841955889 | Canongate Books Ltd, October 1, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Living in the tropical paradise of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson--nostalgic for his native Edinburgh after a chance encounter with Mr.

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9781841955988 | New edition (Canongate Books Ltd, February 17, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr.

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