A personal meditation on the meaning of libraries, conducting a unique library tour taking in everything from childhood bookshelves to the 'complete' library of the internet, the doomed libary of Alexandria to the private collections of Charles...
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....
"What Alberto Manguel has given us is his personal reponse to books and reading in the form of an anthology comprising mythology, anecdote, theology, history and autobiography.. I finished "A History of Reading" with a sense of gratitude...