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Library at Night by Alberto Manguel (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300151306

ISBN-139780300151305

eBay Product ID (ePID)71099666

Product Key Features

Book TitleLibrary at Night

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicGeneral, World, Books & Reading

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, History

AuthorAlberto Manguel

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"In my personal library of imaginary places, and more specifically on the bookcases near my desk, I maintain a shelf reserved for brilliant readers. There's rarely any turnover. Borges, Calvino, Benjamin and Zweig (plus a few other steadfast patrons). With Manguel's The Library at Night , that will clearly have to change."--Allen Kurzweil, author of The Grand Complication and A Case of Curiosities

Dewey Decimal025

SynopsisA celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe 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.

LC Classification NumberZ662