"he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place."

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Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte

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