Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge
by Ovenden, Richard (Author)
Summary
Opening with the notorious bonfires of "un-German" and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of... Full description
- Cracked clay under the mounds
- A pyre and papyrus
- When books were dog cheap
- An ark to save learning
- Spoil of the conqueror
- How to disobey Kafka
- The twice-burned library
- The paper brigade
- To be burned unread
- Sarajevo Mon Amour
- Flames of empire
- An obsession with archives
- The digital deluge
- Paradise lost?
- Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives.