November 18, 2024
In 1953 a limited run of Fahrenheit 451, the Ray Bradbury dystopian novel about a future where books are burned, was made with asbestos binding, reportedly to make the books unburnable.
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11 Banned Books Through Time
There are plenty of reasons why a book might be banned. It may subvert a popular belief of a dominating culture, shock an audience with grotesque, sexual, or obscene language, or be thought to promote strife within a society. Whatever the reason, once a book is banned, a sort of aura of mystique is
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