9780300151305

The Library at Night

Alberto Manguel

ISBN 10: 0300151306 / 0-300-15130-6
ISBN 13: 9780300151305
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Softcover
Editorial Reviews:
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"...a crusading defence of the library as a mental sanctuary, a repository of memory, the only kind of home that has any emotional value for Manguel the deracinated cosmopolitan."

Peter Conrad, Guardian (London), 04/27/2008

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"This is a book full of pleasurable memories--full of happiness."

Doris Lessing, Times Literary Supplement, 11/28/2008

 

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Book Description: Yale University Press, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 140 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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 world, from China and Rome to Google.He ponders the doomed library of Alexandria as well as the 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, the library of books never written - Manguel illuminates the mysteries of libraries as no other writer could. With scores of wonderful images throughout, "The Library at Night" is a fascinating voyage through Manguel's mind, memory, and vast knowledge of books and civilizations. Bookseller Inventory # AAE9780300151305

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