The Bookworm, detail by Carl Spitzweg

Elderly man on a step stool reading an open book among tall library shelves, with a red book under his arm.

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An elderly man with white hair stands on a step stool in a library, holding an open book up to his face while another red-bound volume is tucked under his arm. Tall shelves densely packed with books fill the background, and a sprig of foliage hangs at the right edge. This detail of Carl Spitzweg's The Bookworm, a print held by Wikimedia Commons, shows the figure absorbed in his reading.

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