Essays - Summer 2007

Fragments of Paradise

Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world

By Alberto Manguel

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Alberto Manguel , a writer, translator, and editor, is the author of The Library at Night, A History of Reading, and With Borges.