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Burning the Books
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Richard Ovenden
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge
The Burning Library
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Edmund White
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-22 - Publisher: Vintage

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From the National Book Award honored author of A Previous Life and a master of American literature comes a dazzling collection of 25 years of groundbreaking ess
The Burning Library
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Geordie Williamson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-24 - Publisher: Text Publishing

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Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works w
Burning Books and Leveling Libraries
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Rebecca Knuth
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the world's libraries occurred throughout the
Burning Books
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: M. Fishburn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-21 - Publisher: Springer

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This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning