III The Library
The 다음 room Ember visited was to her a Heaven on Earth. An enormous room just for holding books! The ceiling was so high it would have taken ten of her standing on 상단, 맨 위로 of one another the reach it. The shelves and shelves of 책 were piled right up to the 상단, 맨 위로 and there were several ladders placed conveniently so that she could reach the topmost books.
Ember walked round the room as though she were in a dream. She loved 읽기 and devoured every book she found but she had never had a whole 도서관, 라이브러리 full of them to herself. She barely knew where to start. Every square inch of...
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