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The Library at Night

Alberto Manguel

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Inspired by creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, the author tours from his childhood bookshelves to the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria and personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.

He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought—the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral “memory libraries” kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, a library of books never written.

Format:

Pages:: 373 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Yale University Press

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0300139144

ISBN13:: 9780300139143

kindle Asin:: B001A1AW8S

The Library at Night

Alberto Manguel

3.99/5 (2284 ratings)

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Inspired by creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, the author tours from his childhood bookshelves to the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google. He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria and personal libraries of Charles Dickens, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.

He recounts stories of people who have struggled against tyranny to preserve freedom of thought—the Polish librarian who smuggled books to safety as the Nazis began their destruction of Jewish libraries; the Afghani bookseller who kept his store open through decades of unrest. Oral “memory libraries” kept alive by prisoners, libraries of banned books, the imaginary library of Count Dracula, a library of books never written.

Format:

Pages:: 373 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Yale University Press

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0300139144

ISBN13:: 9780300139143

kindle Asin:: B001A1AW8S

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