In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of ...

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling novel of a frightening near-future world

Although the literary merit of the major ity of these books has been proven time and time again, censorship efforts are still in place today.

Yet, almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. The reasons cited for this are many: educated people are much harder to govern, and some proclaim that only the illiterate can save the world.

A not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, where individuals and scholars are outcasts and where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

An inspiring tale of a young girl who fights back when her favorite book is banned from her school library—by starting her own illegal locker library!

Acknowledgments 1: New Threats to Free Thought 2: The Rise of Liberal Science 3: The Politics of Liberal Science4: The Fundamentalist Threat 5: The Humanitarian Threat 6: Et Expecto Resurrectionem Notes Index Copyright © Libri GmbH.

Sexual anti-Semitism and pornotopia: Theodore Dreiser, Ludwig Lewisohn, and the Harrad experiment -- The prestige of dirty words and pictures: Horace Liveright, Henry Roth, and the graphic novel -- Otherfuckers and motherfuckers: ...

In the Soviet world, their freedom was often denied, while in the West freedom came at a cost. This book describes the CIA influence on cultural life during the Cold War.