Books Fatal to Their Authors

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Peter Hempson Ditchfield In Year : 1895

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Books Fatal to Their Authors

Preface To the Book Lover
Chapter 1 Part 1 Theology
Chapter 1 Part 2
Chapter 1 part 3
Chapter 1 Part 4
Chapter 2 Fanatics and Free-Thinkers
Chapter 3 Astrology, Alchemy and Magic
Chapter 4 Science and Philosophy
Chapter 5 Part 1 History
Chapter 5 Part 2
Chapter 6 Part 1 Politics and Statesmanship
Chapter 6 Part 2
Chapter 7 Satire
Chapter 8 Poetry
Chapter 9 Drama and Romance
Chapter 10 Booksellers and Publishers
Chapter 11 Some Literary Martyrs

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)