{"product_id":"9780593536278","title":"Stories of Books and Libraries","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink-stained medieval monks in Umberto Eco’s \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose \u003c\/i\u003eto the book-besotted denizens of Ali Smith’s \u003ci\u003ePublic Library and Other Stories. \u003c\/i\u003eIn these pages readers are invited to enter the interior lives of librarians in Lorrie Moore’s “Community Life” and Elizabeth McCracken'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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks 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 Cortázar’s mesmerizing “The Continuity of Parks” dramatizes the merging of the world inside and outside of a book. In \u003ci\u003eStories of Books and Libraries\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman'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.","brand":"Jane Holloway","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":45894361415892,"sku":"9780593536278","price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bcb9d4d5-71ce-407a-9583-0555af6bdc78.jpg?v=1732355247","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780593536278","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}