120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, Dawn B. Sova, Margaret Bald
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- 502pp
- Sales Rank: 134,078
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- ISBN-13: 9780816060436
- Edition Description: REV
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: June 2005
- Publisher: Infobase Publishing
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: June 2005
- Publisher: Infobase Publishing
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 502pp
- Sales Rank: 134,078
- ISBN-13: 9780816060436
- ISBN: 0816060436
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: REV
Synopsis
"Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books has been proven time and time again, efforts are still in place today to suppress some of them. From Animal Farm to Ulysses, this book examines the struggle 120 of these works faced to be read." 120 Banned Books provides a summary and censorship history of each work and lists suggestions for further reading. This book expands on the 100 titles profiled in 100 Banned books (Facts On File/Checkmark Books, 1999) by adding 20 new entries on texts that have sparked controversy or been banned outright. In addition, updates to existing entries cover new controversies regarding such classics as Huckleberry Finn, The Canterbury Tales, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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March 26, 2009: I personally found this book very useful while doing a research paper on banned books. It has several different chapters on the various reasons of book bannings, and in those chapters, around 30 books (per chapter) that have been banned for that reason. It gives a fairly detailed summary of each book, and then exactly why it was banned. I would really recommend this book to anyone writing about censorship, or someone who just simply wants to find a great book to read.
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