The Library at Night (Paperback)

from kant1066

Alberto Manguel is one of those writers you will eventually encounter if you like books about books, the history of libraries, and the sociology and culture of reading in general. Perhaps these subjects come naturally to someone with a 30,000 volume library, located at his home just south of the ...

from armillarygal

I rarely buy a hardcover book, but this one I want to make sure lasts and doesn't disintegrate when I go back to reread it many times in the future. This is the book I've been looking for for the past seven or eight years. I thought I was going to have to write it myself, but I could never have d...

from TCBard

This book will be irresistible to any member of Library Thing. As a sample: The rooms in which writers (that subspecies of readers) surround themselves with the materials they need for their work acquire an animal quality, like that of a den or a nest, holding the shape of their bodies and offeri...

from tututhefirst

This is a book that is almost impossible to do justice to in a review. It should be required reading for all bibliophiles, and certainly in library schools. A luscious book about libraries: ancient, modern, imagined, real, paper, stone, virtual, digital, scrolled, rolled, bound, shelved, piled, c...

from vicminish

For every reader who has had a near mystical experience upon entering the door of a handsome library and gazing upon the stacks, this book will help you find a kindred soul. The Library at Night is a series of essays that brings to life why we are facinated, enthrallled, and overjoyed by librarie...