Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Reader as Traveler: Reading as Recognition of the World
Chapter 2. The Reader in the Ivory Tower: Reading as Alienation from the World
Chapter 3. The Bookworm: The Reader as Inventor of the World
Conclusion: Reading to Live

Notes
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of numerous books celebrating the written word, including bestsellers A History of Reading, The Library at Night, and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.

Reviews

On Alberto Manguel: "[Alberto Manguel's] imagination is supple and generous, and his work is full of surprises."-A. S. Byatt, The Washington Post "The area which Alberto Manguel has mapped for himself is that of the eros of reading. He celebrates the diversities of desire-tempestuous, hidden, intermittent, lapsed-which relate us to a literary text."-George Steiner, The Guardian