120 Banned Books
- ISBN-10
- 0816085196
- ISBN-13
- 9780816085194
- Category
- Political Science
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Checkmark
- Authors
- Dawn B. Sova, Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald
Description
"From the Bible to The Hate U Give: a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature. 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, censorship efforts are still in place today. From Animal Farm to The Grapes of Wrath, The Koran to The Talmud, Beloved to the Harry Potter series, The Canterbury Tales to Catch-22, this revised edition examines the many struggles these books faced in order to be read"--
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- 2005-06-01
- 502 pages
- Paperback
- Turtleback Books
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