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From Gossip Girl to The Kite Runner'a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature Throughout history, writers and their works have been censored on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the major ity of these books has been proven time and time again, censorship efforts are still in place today. From Animal Farm to The Grapes of Wrath, the.Koran to the Talmud, Ulysses to the Harry Potter series, The Canterbury Tales to The Bell Jar, this revised edition examines the many struggles these books have faced in order to be read. Tracing the censorship histories of 120 works from across the world, 720 Banned Books, Second Edition provides a summary of each work, its censor ship history, and suggestions for further reading. Many new titles have been added to. reflect controversies in recent years, and updates have been made to existing entries on famous works that continue to provoke challenges. New entries include The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (banned on social grounds) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (banned on religious grounds) Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea (banned on political grounds) The Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar (banned onsexualgrounds)ΒΆ The trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (banned on religious grounds) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (banned on social grounds) The Twilight series by Stephenie IVIeyer (banned on sexual grounds) and many more Book jacket.
Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Revised Edition profiles the censorship of many such essential works of literature. The entries new to this edition include extensive coverage of the Harry Potter series, which has been frequently banned in the United States on the grounds that it promotes witchcraft, as well as entries on two popular textbook series, The Witches by Roald Dahl, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, and more. Also included are updates to such entries as The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned.
Alphabetically arranged entries offer detailed histories of 125 films, providing production data, cast information, plot summaries, censorship histories, and profiles of directors.
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.
From the Bible;to;The Hate U Give:;a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature.Praise for the previous editions:"A must-have for all of us who enjoy the right to choose what we read."-Nadine Stros.
A collection of essays confronting the censorship issue, including six authors' views and defenses of individual books.
The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own.