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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.
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De bibliotheek bij nacht, Alberto Manguel
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- De bibliotheek bij nacht
- Subtitle
- de liefde voor boeken en de kunst van het verzamelen
- Language
- Dutch
- Authors
- Alberto Manguel
- Publisher
- Ambo
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 9026320795
- ISBN13
- 9789026320798
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Philosophical Topics, Literary Studies, Architecture, Architecture & Urbanism, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Stories, Ancient History, Culture, Cultural History, About Books, Struggle for Power, Writers, Home, Reading, Libraries, Librarianship, Library science, History of Libraries
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- The Library at Night
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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.