num_pages: 248
description: 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 captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.
language: English
title: Burning Books
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan