One of the most beloved "mosaic novels, " The Library presents a series of tales centered on our love of books-taken, at times, to extremes. A writer encounters a website where all his possible future books are on display, a lonely man faces an infinite flow of hardback books through his mailbox, an ordinary library turns by night into an archive of souls, the Devil sets about raising standards of infernal literacy, one book houses all books, a connoisseur of hardcovers strives to expel a lone paperback from his collection.Winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella!