Binding: Hardcover
Description: An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word The 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 Mc Cracken's " Juliet" and are ushered into a host of unusual libraries including the infinite rooms of Jorge Luis Borges's The Library of Babel and a secret library in Helen Oyeyemi's Books and Roses. Books exert their power in mysterious ways: an attempt by the military leaders of an imaginary nation to censor all of literature goes awry in Italo Calvino's A General in the Library and Julio Cort zar's mesmerizing The Continuity of Parks dramatizes the merging of the world inside and outside of a book. In Stories of Books and Libraries a dazzling array of writers including Evelyn Waugh Colette Walter Benjamin Isaac Babel Teffi and Ray Bradbury pay tribute to books and the magical places that house them. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid - free cream - colored paper with full - cloth cases with two - color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers European - style half - round spines and a full - color illustrated jacket.
Title: Stories Of Books And Libraries
Brand: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593536278
Pages: 496 Pages
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Classic Fiction