title: The Burning Library: Essays
author:  Edmund White 
description: Selections gathered from 25 years of White's nonfiction writings, with an emphasis on recent developments in gay experience and White's reviews of a variety of contemporary writers. <BR>Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: # Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People
  
  ##  Marcos Antonio Hernandez
  
  
  Copyright © 2021 by Marcos Antonio Hernandez
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1-7368067-0-8 (Paperback edition)
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1-7368067-1-5 (Ebook edition)
  
  
  > "That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn
  > people as well."
  >
  > Heinrich Heine, _Almansor_ , 1821
  
  
  # Contents
  
  [ Chapter 1 ](text00004.html#chapter-1)
  
  [ Chapter 2 ](text00005.html#chapter-2)
  
  [ Chapter 3 ](text00006.html#chapter-3)
  
  [ Chapter 4 ](text00007.html#chapter-4)
  
  [ Chapter 5 ](text00008.html#chapter-5)
  
  [ Chapter 6 ](text00009.html#chapter-6)
  
  [ Chapter 7 ](text00010.html#chapter-7)
  
  [ Chapter 8 ](text00011.html#chapter-8)
  
  [ Chapter 9 ](text00012.html#chapter-