Burning Books

TitleBurning Books
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsFishburn, Matthew
Number of Pages219 pp.
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
CityNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780230553286
Annotation

Examines book burning, focusing on the Nazi period to the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in 1953.

Contents:
Introduction
The fear of books
The burning of books
The library of the burned books
To hell with culture
Swing, they're burning books
Beauty for ashes
Funeral pyres
Postscript: The path of cinders

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