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Author : Edmund White
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1995-10-31
The Burning Library written by Edmund White and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-31 with Literary Collections categories.
From the National Book Award honored author of A Previous Life and a master of American literature comes a dazzling collection of 25 years of groundbreaking essays that redefined politics, language, identity, and friendship. “A testament to White’s versatility, his insatiable curiosity about the emergence of gays in modern American life…. Fascinating.” —San Francisco Chronicle Along with his essays of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer formerly known as Prince.
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Author : Geordie Williamson
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-24
The Burning Library written by Geordie Williamson and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Read this book to discover literary gems you've never heard of or to learn more about the authors you love Australia's most respected and influential literary critic writes about our most important novelists and their disappearing legacy A call to arms for anyone with a love of Australian literature from an ardent fan The book will be published into a current national debate about our Australian literary heritage Like Harold Bloom's incredible bestselling The Western Canon, this is a perfect introduction to Australian literature A collection of essay on key Australian novelists including Jessica Anderson, Martin Boyd, Eleanor Dark, George Johnson, Patrick White, David Ireland and Olga Masters A wonderful companion book to the release of the Text Classics Author will be a guest of numerous writers festivals in 2013 Author won the 2011 Pascall Prize for criticism Author lives in the Blue Mountains, NSW Author maintains a blog at burninglibraryproject.tumblr.com/
Fire The Library Is Burning
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Author : Cytron
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Fire The Library Is Burning written by Cytron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with Jewish libraries categories.
Describes the disastrous 1966 fire at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and the massive rescue operation in which both the neighborhood and the city took part.
The Burning Library
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Author : Geordie Williamson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Burning Library written by Geordie Williamson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Australian literature categories.
Readhowyouwant 16 point large print. The Burning Library explores the lives and work of Australian novelists, many of whom have unjustly disappeared from the public imagination. Alarmed by the increasingly marginal status of Australian literature in the academy, Williamson has set out to reintroduce us to those key writers whose works we may have forgotten or missed altogether. His focus is on fiction that gives pleasure, and he is ardent in defence of books that for whatever reason sit uneasily in the present moment. Among the writers Williamson discusses are Dymphna Cusack, Elizabeth Harrower, David Ireland, Olga Masters and Gerald Murnane. The Burning Library is a dynamic act of reclamation inspired by Miles Franklin's claim that a nation that fails to acknowledge its literary treasures is 'neither preserved nor developed, but only defaced'.
The Burning Page
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Author : Genevieve Cogman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-01-10
The Burning Page written by Genevieve Cogman and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Fiction categories.
Librarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai return for another “tremendously fun, rip-roaring adventure,” (A Fantastical Librarian)—the third in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Masked City. Never judge a book by its cover... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library. But trouble has a tendency to find both Irene and her apprentice, Kai—a dragon prince—and, before they know it, they are entangled in more danger than they can handle... Irene’s longtime nemesis, Alberich, has once again been making waves across multiple worlds, and, this time, his goals are much larger than obtaining a single book or wreaking vengeance upon a single Librarian. He aims to destroy the entire Library—and make sure Irene goes down with it. With so much at stake, Irene will need every tool at her disposal to stay alive. But even as she draws her allies close around her, the greatest danger might be lurking from somewhere close—someone she never expected to betray her...
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Author : Edmund White
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1994
The Burning Library written by Edmund White and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Collections categories.
This book brings together some of Edmund White's essays, articles and reviews from more than 20 years, and presents a portrait of the writer and his time. The book features interviews, profiles and essays which focus on the literary and cultural figures whose work has most influenced White: Nabokov, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennesse Williams, Michel Foucault, Pasoline, Roland Barthes, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote and Marguerite Yourcenar.
Burning The Books
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Author : Richard Ovenden
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Burning The Books written by Richard Ovenden and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Fire
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Author : Barry D. Cytron
language : en
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Release Date : 1988
Fire written by Barry D. Cytron and has been published by Lerner Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the disastrous 1966 fire at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and the massive rescue operation in which both the neighborhood and the city took part.
Books On Fire
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Author : Lucien X. Polastron
language : en
Publisher: Lucien X. POLASTRON
Release Date : 2007-08-13
Books On Fire written by Lucien X. Polastron and has been published by Lucien X. POLASTRON this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-13 with History categories.
Almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. Author Lucien X. Polastron traces the history of this destruction, examining the causes for these disasters, the treasures that have been lost, and where the surviving books, if any, have ended up. Books on Fire received the 2004 Societe des Gens de Lettres Prize for Nonfiction/History in Paris.
Burning The Books
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Author : Richard Ovenden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Burning The Books written by Richard Ovenden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Archives categories.
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 the world-famous Bodleian Library, explains how attacks on libraries and archives have been a feature of history since ancient times but have increased in frequency and intensity during the modern era
