The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel

The Library at Night

Alberto Manguel

373 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative reflective slow-paced

Description

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...

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informative 88%
reflective 77%
inspiring 44%
funny 22%
hopeful 22%
relaxing 22%
challenging 11%

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medium 25%

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