Literature Suppressed On Social Grounds Banned Books Second Revised Edition 2nd Edition Dawn B Sova by Dawn B. Sova 9780816062713, 9780816071500, 0816062714, 0816071500 instant download after payment.

Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, Revised Edition 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. The entries new to this edition include the Captain Underpants series, We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier, and Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven by Margaret Zemach. Also included are updates to the censorship histories of such books as To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men.Banned Books: 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.
Works covered include:
-- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
-- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
-- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
-- Being There, Jerzy Kosinski
-- Camille, Alexandre Dumas, Jr.
-- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
-- Deliverance, James Dickey
-- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
-- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
-- A Farewell to Arms, ErnestHemingway
-- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
-- Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg
-- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
-- Jaws, Peter Benchley
-- Junky, William S. Burroughs
-- Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
-- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
-- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
-- Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver
-- Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith.