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9780816082285

Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds

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  • ISBN13:

    9780816082285

  • ISBN10:

    0816082286

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-06-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Third Edition discusses the many works that have been banned over the centuries because they offended or merely ignored official truths; challenged widely held assumptions; or contained ideas or language unacceptable to a state, religious institution, or private moral watchdog.

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Excerpts

Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Third Edition discusses the many works that have been banned over the centuries because they offended or merely ignored official truths; challenged widely held assumptions; or contained ideas or language unacceptable to a state, religious institution, or private moral watchdog.
New and revised entries include:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Howl and Other Poems (Allen Ginsberg)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
and more.

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