New York Public Library

New York Public Library
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These are the steps that lead to the New York Public Library where Frank McCourt went as a young man to learn about Johnson's Lives of the English Poets as recounted in Chapter Three of 'Tis: The sight of the Main Reading Room, North and South, makes me go weak at the knees . . . I'm near tears when I look at the miles of shelves and know I'll never be able to read all those books if I live till the end of the century.