Edinburgh International Book Festival
Jim Haynes on the book that went up in flames
The Guardian, 22 August 2011
Jim Haynes, second left, watches the book burning outside his shop.
Pic: Alan Daiches / Demarco Archives
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Edinburgh International Book Festival Jim Haynes on the book that went up in flames |
| by Michael MacLeod, The Guardian, 22 August 2011 |
| One of Edinburgh's best known literary characters shares the story behind an iconic image |
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Jim Haynes opened the Paperback bookshop in Charles Street in 1959, where the University of Edinburgh's new informatics centre now stands. |
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It was "sometime around 1960" that he sold a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover to a woman to proceeded to set it on fire. Penguin Books was put on trial in 1960 for publishing the book, in what became a test-case for freedom of speech. |
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Listen
to Jim Haynes on the Guardian's original Webpage
to find out how the picture ended up in newspapers around the world! |
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text by Michael MacLeod
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article published with kind permission
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©Guardian, 2011
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Jim Haynes on the book that went up in flames