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Widener Library is definitely "enlightened". In its Treasure Room, to which access may only be had with permission and from which books may not be taken, are shelves of musty first editions and valuable manuscripts.
Side by side are contemporary editions of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Bacon, Michelangelo, Livy, Nepos, Aristotle, Sophocles, and Harold Gray.
The latter is represented by the only book of his in the Library. Its title is "Little Orphan Annie and the Big Train Wreck," which, according to a reliable prophet, will sooner or later be considered among the most representative of current literature.
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