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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sova, Dawn B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Facts On File, [2006]
Edition:Rev. ed.
Series:Facts on File library of world literature.
Banned books (2006)
Subjects:
Censorship > History.
Prohibited books > History.
Social problems > United States > History.
Social problems > History.
Social problems in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Works discussed in this volume : The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  • The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
  • The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
  • Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
  • The amboy dukes (Irving Shulman)
  • The American Heritage dictionary of the English language
  • Am I blue? (Marion Dane Bauer)
  • And still I rise (Maya Angelou)
  • Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl (Anne Frank)
  • Annie on my mind (Nancy Garden)
  • Another country (James Baldwin)
  • Aphrodite (Pierre Louÿs)
  • Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara)
  • As I lay dying (William Faulkner)
  • The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
  • The autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X, with Alex Haley)
  • The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J. Gaines)
  • Baby Be-bop (Francesca Lia Block)
  • The basketball diaries (Jim Carroll)
  • Being there (Jerzy Kosinski)
  • The bell jar (Sylvia Plath)
  • The best short stories by Negro writers (Langston Hughes, ed.)
  • Black like me (John Howard Griffin)
  • Bless the beasts and children (Glendon Swarthout)
  • Blubber (Judy Blume)
  • Brave new world (Aldous Huxley)
  • Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
  • Cain's book (Alexander Trocchi)
  • Camille (Alexandre Dumas, Jr.)
  • The Canterbury tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
  • Captain Underpants, series (Dav Pilkey)
  • Catch-22 (Joseph Heller).
  • The catcher in the rye (J.D. Salinger)
  • The chocolate war (Robert Cormier)
  • A clockwork orange (Anthony Burgess)
  • The color purple (Alice Walker)
  • Cujo (Stephen King)
  • Daddy's roommate (Michael Willhoite)
  • A day no pigs would die (Robert Newton Peck)
  • Deliverance (James Dickey)
  • A dictionary of American slang (Harold Wentworth)
  • Dictionary of slang and unconventional English (Eric Partridge)
  • Doctor Dolittle, series (Hugh John Lofting)
  • Dog day afternoon (Patrick Mann)
  • Down these mean streets (Piri Thomas)
  • Dracula (Bram Stoker)
  • The drowning of Stephan Jones (Bette Greene)
  • East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
  • Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis)
  • End as a man (Calder Willingham)
  • Esther Waters (George Moore)
  • Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  • Fallen angels (Walter Dean Myers)
  • A farewell to arms (Ernest Hemingway)
  • Final exit (Derek Humphry)
  • The fixer (Bernard Malamud)
  • Fruits of philosophy : the private companion of married couples (Charles Knowlton)
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
  • Gentleman's agreement (Laura Z. Hobson)
  • The giver (Lois Lowry)
  • Go ask Alice (Anonymous)
  • Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell)
  • Gorillas in the mist (Dian Fossey)
  • Go tell it on the mountain (James Baldwin)
  • Grendel (John Gardner)
  • Heather has two mommies (Leslea Newman)
  • A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich (Alice Childress)
  • Howl and other poems (Allen Ginsberg)
  • I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou).
  • In the night kitchen (Maurice Sendak)
  • Invisible man (Ralph Ellison)
  • Jake and Honeybunch go to heaven (Margot Zemach)
  • James and the giant peach (Roald Dahl)
  • Jaws (Peter Benchley)
  • Junky (William S. Burroughs)
  • King & King (Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland)
  • Kingsblood royal (Sinclair Lewis)
  • Last exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby, Jr.)
  • Leaves of grass (Walt Whitman)
  • Little Black Sambo (Helen Bannerman)
  • Little house on the prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
  • Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault)
  • Lord of the flies (William Golding)
  • Manchild in the promised land (Claude Brown)
  • Married love (Marie Stopes)
  • My house (Nikki Giovanni)
  • The naked ape (Desmond Morris)
  • Naked lunch (William S. Burroughs)
  • Nana (Émile Zola)
  • Never love a stranger (Harold Robbins)
  • New dictionary of American slang, discussed with A dictionary of American slang (Robert L. Chapman)
  • Of mice and men (John Steinbeck)
  • Of time and the river (Thomas Wolfe)
  • One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Ken Kesey)
  • Ordinary people (Judith Guest)
  • The ox-bow incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
  • The red pony (John Steinbeck)
  • The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  • A separate peace (John Knowles)
  • Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
  • Soul on ice (Eldridge Cleaver)
  • Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
  • Strange fruit (Lillian Smith)
  • Stranger in a strange land (Robert A. Heinlein)
  • The sun also rises (Ernest Hemingway)
  • To have and have not (Ernest Hemingway)
  • To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  • Unlived affections (George Shannon)
  • We all fall down (Robert Cormier)
  • Welcome to the monkey house (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
  • The well of loneliness (Radclyffe Hall)
  • Whale talk (Chris Cutcher)
  • Woman in the mists, discussed with Gorillas in the mist (Farley Mowat)
  • Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do (Studs Terkel)
  • A world I never made (James T. Farrell).