May 10

In literary history

• 1933German students burned more than 25,000 books at the Bebelplatz in Berlin while Goebbels addressed a crowd of 40,000. Among the ashes were works by Heinrich Heine, who had written a century earlier: where they burn books, they will end by burning people.

Writers born on May 10

• Benito Pérez Galdós (1843),
• Richard Adams (1920)

The Daily Canon for May 10

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877).