Joanie Wheeler Morgan was visiting her family home in Hot Springs, Virginia, when she came across an extremely old, fragile-looking book.
Intrigued, she opened it, and quickly realised it belonged to a library. It was nearly 90 years overdue.
“I saw that the due date was the 11th of October, 1933,” said Wheeler Morgan. “I thought: ‘My God.’”
The book, Youth and Two Other Stories by Joseph Conrad, was published in 1902. It had been borrowed