The Library at Night

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  Permission to reprint “The Mayan Books” by A.D. Hope from The Collected Poems 1330–1370, Angus & Robertson, 1972, granted by arrangement with the Licensor, c/o Curtis Brown (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

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  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Manguel, Alberto, 1948–

  The library at night / Alberto Manguel.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-37027-3

  1. Libraries. 2. Libraries—History. 3. Books and reading.

  I. Title.

  Z665.M35 2007 027 c2007-903237-0

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