Books Condemned to be Burnt

Books Condemned to be Burnt

By James Anson Farrer
Michael Caine
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Excerpt: "Historians are generally too engrossed with the details of battles, all as drearily similar to one another as scenes of murder and rapine must of necessity be, to spare a glance for the far brighter and more instructive field of the mutations or of the progress of manners. This work is attempt to supply the deficiency on the particular subject of burning books. Here is the sort of attraction that belongs to all forbidden fruit in books which some public authority has condemned to the flames. And seeing that to collect something is a large part of the secret of human happiness, it occurred to me that a variety of the happiness that is sought in book collecting might be found in making a collection of books of this sort. I have, therefore, put together the following narrative of our burnt literature as some kind of aid to any book-lover who shall choose to take my hint and make the peculiarity I have indicated the key-note to the formation of his library."

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GenreHistory
Length4 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1PREFACE.
7CHAPTER IV.
2CONTENTS.
8CHAPTER V.
3INTRODUCTION.
9CHAPTER VI.
4CHAPTER I.
10CHAPTER VII.
5CHAPTER II.
11APPENDIX.
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6CHAPTER III

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