FAHRENHEIT
451
Denis Gouey does
not encourage or promote book burning
activities.
This page is only
educational.
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In Fahrenheit 451,
Ray Bradbury spins a tale of book burning and suppression of
knowledge.
Real life
history tells us that this was not a novel idea.
Everybody knows about Nazi Germany and the book burning
orgies: .
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Way before that, but quite
after the torching of Alexander's great library,
Europe had a
solution for the menacing spread of knowledge as depicted in the
engravings below: .
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. A 16th century wood block by Jost
Amman
. An 18th century French
etching
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An 18th century frontispiece for a
French religious work 
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In "The Book of Abraham",
"written by Himself", published in Boston - for the purchaser- in
1846, the following woodcut is used as a frontispiece:
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In
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. Book burning is still alive
today as you can see on the following links:
Book Burning
Censorship
and Book Burning
book burning wiki
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If you have other depiction's of
book burning, contact Denis Gouey at :
www.bookbinding.net/form.htm
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