THE ATHENAEUMThe BibliomaniacCharles Nodier
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The Bibliomaniac
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA short tale of a collector who measures his books’ margins to the millimetre and lives for the copies other men lack. Nodier, librarian of the Arsenal in Paris, wrote it in 1831. He was laughing at himself, more or less.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 30 minutes
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #66552. In the public domain in the United States.