C. S. Lewis destroyed the first version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when his friends criticized it; he rewrote the book from scratch. read more Catch-22 was originally titled Catch-18. read more Charles Dickens had a pet raven, whom he named Grip. The dead bird is now in the Free Library of Philadelphia. read more Charles Dickens used fake books as decoration for his bookcase and his library. read more Chinese Proverb: “Maybe so, Maybe not. We’ll see.” read more Considered as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Middlemarch by George Eliot created a rich portrait of all walks of life in a small early 19th-century English town. Novelist Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". read more Constructed in the 2nd century CE, the Library of Celsus in ancient Ephesus, located in today’s western Turkey, was a repository of over 12,000 scrolls, a monumental tomb for Celsus, and one of the most magnificent architectures in the Roman Empire. read more Czech Republic has the densest library network in the world. There is one library for every 1,971 Czech citizens, 4 times as many as the average European country, and 10 times the United States, which has one for every 19,583 people. read more Designer book benches can be found in parks, bus stops and other public places across Bulgaria. They are made to a high quality standard, using fiberglass with resistance to different climatic conditions, according to the seller OverHertz. read more Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is used to organize the contents of a library. It structures the knowledge into 10 main classes, with each assigned 100 numbers; each class is further structured into 10 divisions. Further subdivisions eventually extend into decimal numbers. read more Dewey Readmore Books (1987-2006) was the library cat of Spencer Public Library, Spencer, Iowa. Abandoned in the library’s drop bin on a cold winter night, Dewey was adopted by the library and lived there for the next 19 years. A book was published in 2008 to recount his life. read more Does age make you wiser? Not necessarily. But books do! read more «« « 9 10 11 12 13 » »»
C. S. Lewis destroyed the first version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when his friends criticized it; he rewrote the book from scratch. read more
Charles Dickens had a pet raven, whom he named Grip. The dead bird is now in the Free Library of Philadelphia. read more
Considered as one of the greatest novels in English literature, Middlemarch by George Eliot created a rich portrait of all walks of life in a small early 19th-century English town. Novelist Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". read more
Constructed in the 2nd century CE, the Library of Celsus in ancient Ephesus, located in today’s western Turkey, was a repository of over 12,000 scrolls, a monumental tomb for Celsus, and one of the most magnificent architectures in the Roman Empire. read more
Czech Republic has the densest library network in the world. There is one library for every 1,971 Czech citizens, 4 times as many as the average European country, and 10 times the United States, which has one for every 19,583 people. read more
Designer book benches can be found in parks, bus stops and other public places across Bulgaria. They are made to a high quality standard, using fiberglass with resistance to different climatic conditions, according to the seller OverHertz. read more
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is used to organize the contents of a library. It structures the knowledge into 10 main classes, with each assigned 100 numbers; each class is further structured into 10 divisions. Further subdivisions eventually extend into decimal numbers. read more
Dewey Readmore Books (1987-2006) was the library cat of Spencer Public Library, Spencer, Iowa. Abandoned in the library’s drop bin on a cold winter night, Dewey was adopted by the library and lived there for the next 19 years. A book was published in 2008 to recount his life. read more
