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AudioBooks Fatal to Their Authors
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LibriVox recording of Books Fatal to Their Authors by Peter Hempson Ditchfield. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why should a man be drawn and quartered for writing what we know is the truth? What must it have been like to have lived in that era. At the time it was dangerous to say that the earth went around the sun and many other theories were treated in the same way. (Summary by Michele Eaton) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (158MB)
Directors & creators
Peter Hempson Ditchfield
Subjects
librivox; audiobooks; book burning; persecution; free speech;
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