Literature suppressed on religious grounds / Margaret Bald.

Author/creator Bald, Margaret
Format Book
EditionRev. ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Facts On File, ©2006.
Descriptionxxiii, 440 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Portion of title Religious grounds
SeriesFacts on File library of world literature
Banned books
Facts on File library of world literature. ^A535402
Banned books (2006) ^A706498
Contents Works discussed in this volume : Alice series (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor) -- Always running, La Vida Loca : gang days in L.A. (Luis T. Rodriguez) -- America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction (Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum) -- An American tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) -- The Arabian nights, or The thousand and one nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) -- The art of love, Ars Amatoria (Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso) -- Bessie Cotter (Wallace Smith) -- The bluest eye (Toni Morrison) -- Boy (James Hanley) -- The buffalo tree (Adam Rapp) -- Candide (Voltaire, François Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Candy (Maxwell Kenton) -- The carpetbaggers (Harold Robbins) -- Casanova's homecoming, Casanova's heimfahrt (Arthur Schnitzler) -- The Chinese room (Vivian Connell) -- Christine (Stephen King) -- The clan of the cave bear (Jean Auel) -- Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) -- The decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) -- The deer park (Norman Mailer) -- The devil rides outside (John Howard Griffin) -- The diary of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys) -- Droll stories (Honoré de Balzac) -- Dubliners (James Joyce) -- Eat me (Linda Jaivin) -- Fanny Hill, or memoirs of a woman of pleasure (John Cleland) -- The fifteen plagues of a maidenhead (Anonymous) -- Flowers for
Contents Algernon (Daniel Keyes) -- The flowers of evil, Les fleurs du mal (Charles Baudelaire) -- Forever (Judy Blume) -- Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor) -- From here to eternity (James Jones) -- The genius (Theodore Dreiser) -- The gilded hearse (Charles O. Gorham) -- The ginger man (J.P. Donleavy) -- The goats (Brock Cole) -- God's little acre (Erskine Caldwell) -- The group (Mary McCarthy) -- Hagar Revelly (Daniel Carson Goodman).
Contents The handmaid's tale (Margaret Atwood) -- The heptameron, L'heptameron ou histoires des amans fortunez (Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre) -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Henry Fielding) -- Homo sapiens (Stanley Przybyskzewski) -- How to make love like a porn star (Jenna Jameson) -- If it die (André Gide) -- Isle of pines (Henry Neville) -- It's perfectly normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health (Robbie H. Harris) -- Janet March (Floyd Dell) -- Jude the obscure (Thomas Hardy) -- Jurgen : a comedy of justice (James Branch Cabell) -- Justine, or the misfortunes of virtue Juliette, her sister, or the prosperities of vice (Marquis de Sade) -- The kama sutra of Vatsayana (Sir Richard Burton, F.F. Arbuthnot, translators) -- The Kreutzer sonata (Leo Tolstoy) -- Ladies in the parlor (Jim Tully) -- Lady Chatterley's lover (D.H. Lawrence) -- La Terre, the earth (Émile Zola) -- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) -- The lustful Turk (Anonymous) -- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) -- Madeleine (Anonymous) -- Mademoiselle de Maupin (Théophile Gautier) -- The maid of Orleans, La pucelle (François-Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Memoires (Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt) -- Memoirs of a young rakehell (Guillaume Apollinaire) -- Memoirs of Hecate
Contents County (Edmund Wilson) -- The merry muses of Caledonia (Robert Burns) -- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) -- My life and loves (Frank Harris) -- A night in a Moorish harem (Anonymous) -- November, Novembre (Gustave Flaubert) -- The 120 days of Sodom, Les 120 journées de Sodome (Marquis de Sade) -- Our lady of the flowers, Notre-Dame des fleurs (Jean Genet) -- Outlaw representation (Richard Meyer) -- Pamela, or virtue rewarded (Samuel Richardson)
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 385-399) and index.
LCCN 2005030115
ISBN0816062692 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816062690 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816062690