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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.
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This book brings you entertaining and witty short stories by great writers such as Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and J. M. Barrie. There are stories about a sassy, talking cat, an unusual divorce, and a man with a mouse in his pants on a train.
Some characters flounder their way through awkward and embarrassing social situations. And other tales have quirky plots, like The Canterville Ghost, where the human occupants scare and terrorize the household ghost.
This collection gives you a chance to sample work from 7 master storytellers from the 1800s and early 1900s. The writers featured are Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, J.M. Barrie, Stephen Leacock, Saki, W.W. Jacobs and O. Henry. Read on and enjoy!
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What happens when a small lie snowballs out of control? Or a man finds a mouse in his pants on a train? Or a talking cat really ruins the mood at a dinner party? Find out in these fun and witty short stories by great writers such as Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and J. M. Barrie.
Some characters flounder their way through awkward and embarrassing social situations like in The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones and My Brother Henry. Other tales have quirky plots, like The Canterville Ghost, where the human occupants scare and terrorize the household ghost.
This collection gives you a chance to sample work from 7 master storytellers from the 1800s and early 1900s. The writers featured are Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, J.M. Barrie, Stephen Leacock, Saki, W.W. Jacobs and O. Henry. So read on, have a laugh and be entertained!
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