Publisher's Synopsis
Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Fourth 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.
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)
- Drama (Raina Telgemeier)
- 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.
