Author: Sova, Dawn B
Title: Banned Books : Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds
Description: New York, Facts On File, 1998. 3 Editions, orig.boards. 24x15cm, xxvii,321 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds discusses writings 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. Includes censorship histories of such books as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men". New and updated entries include: "The 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); "Baby Be-Bop" (Francesca Lia Block); "Camille" ( Alexander Dumas); "The Color Purple" (Alice Walker); "Deliverance" (James Dickey); "The Drowning of Stephan Jones" (Bette Greene); "East of Eden" ( John Steinbeck); " Fahrenheit 451" (Ray Bradbury); "Fallen Angels" (Walter Dean Myers); "A Farewell to Arms" (Ernest Hemingway); and, "Final Exit" ( Derek Humphry). They also include: "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (Francois Rabelais); " Gentleman's Agreement" (Laura Hobson); "The Giver" (Lois Lowry); "Howl and Other Poems" (Allen Ginsberg); "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou); "Invisible Man" (Ralph Ellison); "Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven" (Margot Zemach); "Junky" (William Burroughs); "Of Mice and Men" (

Keywords: Censorship, United States, Prohibited Books, Literary History, Literature, , , ,