Inspired by the process of creating a library for his 15th-century home near the Loire, in France...
Ob Sindbad der Seefahrer, Superman, Don Juan oder Alice im Wunderland: Literarische Heldinnen und...
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Anlässlich der deutschen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft gibt die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek diesen wu...
In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the dise...
By the award-winning author of A History of Reading'For me, words on a page give the world cohere...
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At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien...
While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to...
In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew-or thought they knew-Al...
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