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120 banned books : censorship histories of world literature
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Presents summaries and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
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- Creator
- Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
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- Books
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- English
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- 2nd ed
- New York, NY : Facts on File, Inc., ©2011
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- viii, 560 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816082322, 0816082324
- OCLC
- ocn709408096
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds -- All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque -- Andersonville / MacKinlay Kantor -- The Appointment / Herta Müller -- Areopagitica / John Milton -- Black Boy / Richard Wright -- Burger's Daughter / Nadine Gordimer -- Bus Stop (Chezhan) / Gao Xingjian -- The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up / Liao Yiwu -- Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak -- The Fugitive (Perburuan) -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- Girls of Riyadh / Rajaa Alsanea -- The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck -- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier -- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse Peter / Matthiessen -- Johnny Got His Gun / Dalton Trumbo -- Kiss of the Spider Woman / Manuel Puig -- The Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler -- My Brother Sam Is Dead James / Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier -- 1984 / George Orwell -- Novel Without a Name / Duong, Thu Huong -- The Prince (II Principe) / Niccol? Machiavelli -- El Se?or Presidente / Miguel Angel Asturias -- Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, a Duty Dance with Death / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr -- Snow / OrhanPamuk -- Spycatcber / Peter Wright -- The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in The Conquered City Anonymous -- Literature Suppressed on religious Grounds -- The Age of Reason / Thomas Paine -- The Bible -- The Cartoons That Shook the World / Jytte Klausen -- Children of the Alley Naguib Mahfouz -- Christianity Restored / Michael Servetus -- Church: Charism and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church / Leonardo Boff -- Concerning Heretics / Sebastian Castellio -- The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown -- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems / Galileo Galilei -- Essays / Michel de Montaigne -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's / Stone J.K. Rowling -- The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World / Nawal El Saadawi -- His Dark Materials Trilogy, Book I: The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman -- Impressions Reading Series / Jack Booth, gen. ed -- Infallible? An Inquiry / Hans K?ng -- The Jewel of Medina / Sherry Jones -- The Koran (Qur'an) -- Lajja (Shame) / Taslima Nasrin -- The Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis -- The New Testament / William Tyndale, translator -- Ninety-five Theses / Martin Luther -- Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens -- On the Infinite Universe and Worlds / Giordano Bruno -- On the Origin of Species / Charles Darwin -- The Satanic Verses / Salman Rushdie -- Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India / James W. Laine -- The Talmud -- The Witches / Roald Dahl -- Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran / Shahrnush Parsipur -- Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong / Li Hongzhi -- Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds -- Always Running?La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Liu's T / Rodriguez -- Bless Me, Ultima / Rudolfo Anaya -- The Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison -- Candide / Voltaire -- The Clan of the Cave Bear / Jean Auel -- The Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown -- Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure / John Cleland -- Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes -- The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs dumal) / Charles Baudelaire -- Forever / Judy Blume -- Gossip Girl Series / Cecily von Ziegesar -- The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood -- How the Garc?a Girls Lost Their Accents / Julia Alvarez -- Lady Chatterley's Lover / D.H. Lawrence -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Native Son / The Perks of Being a Wall flower / Stephen Chbosky -- Rabbit, Run / John Updike -- The Rainbow / Sanctuary / William Faulkner -- Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson -- Song of Solomon / Sophie's Choice / William Styron -- less of The D'urbervilles / Thomas Hardy -- Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- This Boy's Life / Tobias Wolff -- Twilight Series / Stephenie Meyer -- Ulysses / James Joyce -- Women in Love / The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian / Sherman Alexie -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / And Tango Makes Three / Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell -- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, with / Alex Haley -- The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath -- Beloved / Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- The Catcher in the Rye J.D. / Salinger -- The Color Purple / Alice Walker -- Fahrenheit -- Ray Bradbury -- A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway -- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything / Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner -- Gorillas in the Mist / Dian Fossey -- The Great / Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Heather Has Two Mommies / Leslea Newman -- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou -- The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini -- Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- Lord of the Flies / William Golding -- Of Mice and Men / One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey -- A Separate Peace / John Knowles -- The Sun Also Rises / Earnest Hemingway -- To Kill A Mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt / Vonnegut, Jr -- Index
Subjects
- Censorship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Prohibited books -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Challenged books -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Censorship -- History.
- Prohibited books -- United States -- Bibliography.
- Challenged books -- United States -- Bibliography.