{"first_publish_date": "1989", "subtitle": "A Wonder of the Ancient World", "title": "The vanished library", "covers": [4654392], "subject_places": ["Alexandria (Egypt)", "Egypt", "Alexandria"], "lc_classifications": ["Z722.5 .C3513 1990"], "subject_people": ["Ptolemy"], "key": "/works/OL135588W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1499570A"}}], "subject_times": ["To 400", "332 BC - 400 AD"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Aliks*andr\u012bn*a (Library)", "Ptolemy", "Libraries", "Library of Alexandria", "Hellenistic culture", "Aliks\u0101ndr\u012bn\u0101 (Library)", "Learning and scholarship", "Antiquit\u00e9s", "Biblioth\u00e8que d'Alexandrie", "Vie intellectuelle", "Antiquities", "Alexandrian Library", "Civilisation ancienne", "Classical Civilization", "History", "Alexandria", "Egypt", "Intellectual life", "Histoire", "Library", "Biblioth\u00e8ques", "Aliks@andr@in@a (Library)", "Alexandria (egypt)", "Fiction, general", "History, ancient", "Civilization"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Recreates the world of ancient Egypt, describes how the Library of Alexandria was created, and speculates on its destruction."}, "latest_revision": 15, "revision": 15, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T14:13:45.005526"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-11T19:21:24.283683"}}