The books we accumulate but will never read are 'less a burden than a form of wealth'
- Posted on August 22, 2025
- By Le Monde
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The books we accumulate but will never read are 'less a burden than a form of wealth'
'Letters from America' (5/6). Writer and journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams sees beauty in accumulating thousands of books in his library, knowing that a single lifetime would never be enough to read them all – a beauty found in an unexplored world.
