THE ATHENAEUMBooks Fatal to Their AuthorsP. H. Ditchfield
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Books Fatal to Their Authors
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textWriters who were burned, imprisoned, exiled or ruined for what they wrote, from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Ditchfield, a country clergyman, collected their cases in 1895. The book is gentler than its subject.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- On the Archive shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #8485. In the public domain in the United States.