
Writers as different as JRR Tolkien, Audrey Niffenegger and Jorge Luis Borges have stacked some of their most giddying visions on imaginary shelves.
My book, The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders, began as an essay on writers’ libraries but quickly grew to encompass public and fictional ones as well. Ancient, modern and imaginary libraries have all accumulated compelling and irresistible stories.
Mysterious filaments connect fictional libraries to each other, and to real libraries. Here are my favourites.
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