burned books
Flames consuming pages
Burned books are books that have been deliberately destroyed by fire, typically by authorities seeking to suppress ideas or control information.
Book burning is an ancient practice associated with censorship, political repression, and cultural purges—the Nazi book burnings of 1933 being the most notorious modern example.
The phrase often appears in discussions of intellectual freedom: Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.
Burned books can also refer simply to books damaged by accidental fire.
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- thought policeSuppressors of forbidden beliefs
- ashesBurned matter's residue
- flamesVisible burning combustion
- going up in flamesBeing destroyed by fire
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- Lost Works
burned booksrequired reading
Assigned essential literature
sacred scriptures · sacred texts · published books · literary canon · national treasures
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