Banned books on digital display
January 28, 2008
Surprisingly or not, many authors that are labeled “classics” nowadays, went through banns, censorship and other suppresses of their works, on the grounds of obscenity, adult language, and other social claims. A Banned Books Online listing exhibits books’ censorship and prohibitions and some history of the letter-related violence.
Neither Shakespeare, nor Twain are strangers to book censorship, according to the listing, let alone works like James Joyce’s Ulysses or Voltaire’s Candide, to name just a couple.
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