Vroege Recensenten

Book-banning is an unfortunate feature of our civilization, and it's been around for quite a while. Some books generate more controversy and get banned far more than others. This collection was created to assemble them under one umbrella. This book features an introductory essay on the state of US book censorship in 2023, as well as historical context and commentary for all 32 books contained within. The titles include:

1. Adam Bede (1859) By George Eliot

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) By Mark Twain

3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) By Mark Twain

5. The Age of Reason (1794) By Thomas Paine

6. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865) By Lewis Carroll

7. An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

8. The Awakening (1899) By Kate Chopin

9. The Call of The Wild (1903) By Jack London

10. Candide (1759) By Voltaire

11. Confessions (1782) By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12. Droll Stories (1831) By Honore De Balzac

13. The Decameron (1353) By Giovanni Boccaccio

14. Elmer Gantry (1927) Sinclair Lewis

15. Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) By John Cleland

16. The Great Gatsby (1925) By F. Scott Fitzgerald

17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) By Victor Hugo

18. The Jungle (1906) By Upton Sinclair

19. Leaves of Grass (1897) By Walt Whitman

20. Lysistrata (411BC) By Aristophanes

21. Madame Bovary (1857) By Gustave Flaubert

22. Moll Flanders (1722) By Daniel Defoe

23. The Rights of Man (1791) By Thomas Paine

24. Salammbo (1896) By Gustave Flaubert

25. Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) By George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

26. Sister Carrie (1900) By Theodore Dreiser

27. Sons and Lovers (1913) By D.H. Lawrence

28. The Scarlet Letter (1850) By Nathaniel Hawthorne

29. The Sun Also Rises (1926) By Ernest Hemingway

30. Ulysses (1922) By James Joyce

31. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) By Harriet Beecher Stowe

32. Women In Love (1920) By D. H. Lawrence

All the original formatting and indentation has been preserved: if some paragraphs seem abnormally long, that's by design. Unfortunately, due to e-book size constraints, all the original book illustrations had to be removed.