Burning the Books

Contents

About the Author

Also by Richard Ovenden

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1. Cracked Clay Under the Mounds

2. A Pyre of Papyrus

3. When Books Were Dog Cheap

4. An Ark to Save Learning

5. Spoil of the Conqueror

6. How to Disobey Kafka

7. The Twice-Burned Library

8. The Paper Brigade

9. To Be Burned Unread

10. Sarajevo Mon Amour

11. Flames of Empire

12. An Obsession with Archives

13. The Digital Deluge

14. Paradise Lost?

15. Coda: Why We Will Always Need Libraries and Archives

Acknowledgements

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