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Banned Books
Pamphlet Courtesy of Perth City Library

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni
Decameron
This book was banned for decades in the US under the Comstock Law of 1873, Also known as the Federal Anti-Obscenity Act, this law banned the mailing of "lewd," "indecent" "filthy" or "obscene" materials.

CLELAND, John
Fanny Hill
This 1749 bestseller about the life of a prostitute was banned in Massachusetts in 1821, in what constitutes as the first known US obscenity case. The book was finally cleared of obscenity charges in 1966 by the US Supreme Court.

DARWIN, Charles
Origin of species
1859: Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published, outlining the theory of evolution. The book was banned from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, where Darwin Had been a student. In 1925, Tennessee banned the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools; the law remained in force until 1967. The Origin of Species was banned in Yugoslavia (Croatia) in 1935 and in Greece in 1937.

DEFOE, Daniel
Moll Flanders
Published in 1722, Moll Flanders was one of the earliest novels. The book dramatically depicts the life and misadventures of a young girl, who becomes a prostitute. The book has been challenged on sexual grounds...

DREISER, T
An American Tragedy
1929: Suppressed in Boston after a jury declared a New York publisher guilty of violating the Massachusetts anti-obscenity statue by selling the novel.

ELIOT, George
Adam Bede
1859: George Eliot's novel Adam Bede was attached as the "...vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind..." and the book was withdrawn from circulation in libraries in Britain.

FLAUBERT, Gustav
Madame Bovary
Published in 1857, Madame Bovary was banned on sexual grounds, in the trial, imperial Advocate Ernest Pinard said, "No gauze for him, no veils - he gives us nature in all her nudity and crudity."

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
Published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter was censored on social grounds. The book has been challenged under claims that it is "pornographic and obscene"

JOYCE, James
Ulysses
Published in 1918, the book was banned on sexual grounds. In 1922, 500 copies of the book were burned by the United States Department of the Post Office.

LAWRENCE, D.H.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Published in 1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover has been banned for its sexually explicit nature. Lawrence wrote three versions of the novel.

LONDON, Jack
Call of the Wild
Jack London's popular novel Call of the Wild was banned in Italy and Yugoslavia (Croatia). In 1932, copies of this and other books by London were burned by the Nazis in Germany - (it must be good then?)

MILLER, Henry
Tropic of Cancer
Now considered an American classic, this book was banned as obscene in the US for 27 years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. The ban was not lifted until 1961, although the work was still deemed "obscene" by the Citizens for Decent Literature.

STEINBECK, John
Of Mice and Men
Published in 1937, Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men has been frequently banned on social grounds. The book has been called "offensive" and "vulgar" because of the language and characterisation.

STOWE, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was controversial. When President Lincoln saw Stowe, he purportedly said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." The novel has been banned for language concerns.

TWAIN, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Published in 1884, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned on social grounds. Concord Public Library called the book "trash suitable only for the slums,: when it first banned the novel in 1885.

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WRIGHT, Peter
Spycatcher
Published in 1987 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said publication could cause a loss of confidence in MI5, and would damage national security. Looking for a new career?

VOLATAIRE
Candide
1821, The Bishop of Troyne claimed a number of works including Candide were "godless and sacrilegious". Pope Pius VII had placed Candide on the list of prohibited books of the Roman Index of 1806. This prohibition was later renewed by Pope Pius VII. Napoleon didn't like him.