The Penguin Book of Summer Stories
Selected and Introduced by Alberto Manguel
Summer is the season for reading. Whether lying on the beach or curled up in a chair on the veranda, on a plane to faraway places or taking in the view from a hotel balcony, reading is the most decadent of summer activities. In The Penguin Book of Summer Stories, internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers a wonderful collection of twenty brilliant stories set in the leisurely time of summer to enjoy and, at the same time, to follow other people's mysterious lives or take part in someone else's dramatic adventure.
Margaret Atwood * Ray Bradbury * Italo Calvino * Albert Camus * Mohamed Choukri * Julio Cortazar * Anita Desai * Helen Garner * Isabel Huggan * Shimaki Kensaku * Bernard MacLaverty * Daphne du Maurier * Gabriel Garcia Márquez * Ludmila Petrushevskaya * Wallace Stegner * Graham Swift * Elizabeth Taylor * John Updike * Tennessee Williams * A.B. Yehoshua
FictionAnthologies (multiple authors)
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERPenguin Books Canada
LENGTH394
LANGUAGEEN
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A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. **The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel** *Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008* There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence, whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit. Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said, “affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.” [Read the whole review][1] (PDF) [1]: http://www.atelieraldente.de/manguel_0h4/documents/Ackroyd%20The%20Library%20at%20Night.pdf
The Penguin Book of Summer Stories
Selected and Introduced by Alberto Manguel
Summer is the season for reading. Whether lying on the beach or curled up in a chair on the veranda, on a plane to faraway places or taking in the view from a hotel balcony, reading is the most decadent of summer activities. In The Penguin Book of Summer Stories, internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers a wonderful collection of twenty brilliant stories set in the leisurely time of summer to enjoy and, at the same time, to follow other people's mysterious lives or take part in someone else's dramatic adventure.
Margaret Atwood * Ray Bradbury * Italo Calvino * Albert Camus * Mohamed Choukri * Julio Cortazar * Anita Desai * Helen Garner * Isabel Huggan * Shimaki Kensaku * Bernard MacLaverty * Daphne du Maurier * Gabriel Garcia Márquez * Ludmila Petrushevskaya * Wallace Stegner * Graham Swift * Elizabeth Taylor * John Updike * Tennessee Williams * A.B. Yehoshua
FictionAnthologies (multiple authors)
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERPenguin Books Canada
LENGTH394
LANGUAGEEN
A Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. **The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel** *Reviewed by Peter Ackroyd, The Times May 8, 2008* There is an old superstition that books, alone in the night and the silence, whisper one to another; the library then becomes an echo chamber of words and syllables, conjuring up the great general drama of the human spirit. Libraries are legendary places. Libraries enter myth as well as history. Lost libraries, like that of Alexandria, are a reminder of the transience of human achievement and of human learning. “No place,” Samuel Jonson said, “affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.” [Read the whole review][1] (PDF) [1]: http://www.atelieraldente.de/manguel_0h4/documents/Ackroyd%20The%20Library%20at%20Night.pdf
