A scholar’s question - although biggest does not always mean best. My own library, while small, contains many first editions not found in other places. The fact that they are my own books is a mere coincidence - fine volumes, all of them!
There are many great libraries in the world. I have visited all that I was able to gain admittance to in my search for knowledge. Yet not every culture embraces libraries in the same manner.
The elves of Caleda Ablan may possess the finest of magical (…)
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Where is the world’s largest library?
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Whispers in the Dark
My father said he’d met one once, in some hovel near Ullsberg. A piteous thing, it spent the whole night trying to convince papa of the glories of Vermin "civilisation". It said that every citizen got a vote, choosing their leaders and their laws. That they elected a ‘senate’ and ‘consuls’ after the fashion of the Avrasi Empire. The rat even had the nerve to call us uncivilised for lacking the same rights!
Now, father listens for a while – how he manages not to laugh, I’ll never know – but (…)