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Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed “acceptable” in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.
Banned Books explores why some of the world’s most important literary classics and seminal non-fiction titles were once deemed too controversial for the public to read – whether for challenging racial or sexual norms, satirizing public figures, or simply being deemed unfit for young readers. From the banning of
All Quiet on the Western Front and the repeated suppression of
On the Origin of the Species, to
1984,
Fahrenheit 45,
Catcher in the Rye and
Huckleberry Fin, this must-have volume examines the astonishing role that some banned books have played in changing history.
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Table of ContentsIntroductionPre-1900
The Decameron
The Canterbury Tales
Wycliffe’s Bible
Dialogue On the Two Chief World Systems
The Response
Moll Flanders
120 Days of Sodom
The 19th Century
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Frankenstein
The History of Mary Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Leaves of Grass
Madame Bovary
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Earth
The Awakening
Between the Wars
Ulysses
Mein Kampf
Elmer Gantry
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Well of Loneliness
A Farewell to Arms
All Quiet on the Western Front
As I Lay Dying
Brave New World
Tropic of Cancer
Mephisto
Gone With the Wind
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Grapes of Wrath
The Postwar Years
Black Boy
The Diary of a Young Girl
1984
The Hive
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Lord of the Flies
Lolita
Giovanni’s Room
Doctor Zhivago
Borstal Boy
Things Fall Apart
Naked Lunch
A Raisin in the Sun
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catch-22
A Clockwork Orange
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Late 20th Century
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
In Cold Blood
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Slaughterhouse-Five
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Black Voices from Prison
Maurice
The Gulag Archipelago
Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin
The Color Purple
The House of the Spirits
The House on Mango Street
The Bus Stop
The Handmaid’s Tale
Beloved
Spycatcher
The Satanic Verses
The Alchemist
Final Exit
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
American Psycho
Shame
The God of Small Things
His Dark Materials
The Harry Potter Series
The 21st Century
Persepolis
The Kite Runner
The Bastard of Istanbul
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The Absolutely True Diaryof a Part-Time Indian
The Cartoons that Shook the World
Melissa (formerly George)
The Hate U Give
Killing Commendatore
I Hate Men
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
This Is a Swedish Tiger
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Index
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