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245 10 $aOn the burning of books /$cKenneth Baker.
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500 $aIncludes index.
500 $a"How flames fail to destroy the written word"--Cover.
505 0 $aForeword -- Political burning -- Religious burning -- War burning -- Personal burning -- Accidental burning -- Royal burning -- Lucky escapes -- Epilogue.
520 $aThe burning of a book is recognizably powerful action -- a fiery rejection of an ideology or a declaration of a text's moral offense. But, since the invention of the printing press in the sixteenth century, the act of burning a book has become mostly symbolic -- very rarely can a book's content be expunged from the written record. In this illustrated book, Kenneth Baker offers a history of the practice of book burning, often by desperate regimes, dictators, and religious fanatics eager to suppress revolutionaries, warn dissenters, or rally the faithful. In On the Burning of Books, Baker explores famous moments throughout history when books have been burnt for political, religious, or personal reasons. Included among his investigations are stories from ancient China to the Nazis, from George Orwell's Animal Farm to Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, from Chairman Mao to the Spanish destruction of the Aztec civilization. Baker describes Samuel Pepys burning an erotic novel, and the personal fires of Lord Byron's memoirs, Dickens's letters, Hardy's poems, and Philip Larkin's diaries. Alongside these many examples are chapters on accidental book burning -- and even lucky escapes.
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