Library at Night

Name: Library at Night
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ISBN: 9780300151305

ISBN-10: 0300151306

ISBN-13: 9780300151305

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alberto Manguel

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Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. "Libraries," he says, "have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic." In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, and wide-ranging book, he offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. Manguel, a guide of irrepressible enthusiasm, conducts a unique library tour that extends from his childhood bookshelves to the "complete" libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English