Stories of Books and Libraries Holloway Jane
An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written wordThe characters in the delightful stories collected…
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An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written wordThe characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink-stained medieval monks in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose to the book-besotted denizens of Ali Smith's Public Library and Other Stories. In these pages readers are invited to enter the interior lives of librarians in Lorrie Moore's "Community Life" and Elizabeth McCracken's Juliet and are ushered into a host of unusual libraries: the infinite rooms of Jorge Luis Borges's "The Library of Babel," a secret library in Helen Oyeyemi's "Books and Roses," and the ghost-haunted stacks of M. L. James's "Tractate Middoth." Books exert their power in mysterious ways: an attempt by the military leaders of an imaginary nation to censor
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