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Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities
- Ulysses by James Joyce was selected by the Modern Library as the best novel of the 20th century, but was barred from the United States as obscene for 15 years, and was seized by U.S Postal Authorities in 1918 and 1930. The lifting of the ban in 1933 came only after advocates fought for the right to publish the book.
- Candide, Voltaire's critically hailed satire. In 1944, the US Post Office demanded the omission of Candide from a mailed Concord Books catalog.
- John Cleland's Fanny Hill (also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) has been frequently suppressed since its initial publication in 1749. This story of a prostitute is known both for its frank sexual descriptions and its parodies of contemporary literature. It was not cleared by the Supreme Court of obscenity charges until 1966.
- Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Boccaccio's Decameron, Defoe's Moll Flanders, and various editions of The Arabian Nights were all banned for decades from the U.S. mails under the Comstock Law of 1873 .
- In 1915, Margaret Sanger's husband was jailed for distributing her Family Limitation, which described and advocated various methods of contraception. In 1916 Margaret Sanger started the American Birth Control League, which eventually merged with other groups to form Planned Parenthood.
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman's famous collection of poetry
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography Confessions was banned by U.S. Customs in 1929
- Thomas Paine, best known for his writings supporting American independence, was indicted for treason in England in 1792 for his work The Rights of Man, defending the French Revolution.
- Some english publishers prosecuted for publishing The Age of Reason, where Paine argues for Deism and against Christianity and Atheism.
- Blaise Pascal's The Provincial Letters, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld
- Shredding and burning of this work commanded by King Louis XIV of France in 1660
- Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered was considered a threat to the sovereignty and authority of kings.
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was banned there as "indecent, objectionable, or obscene" won banning by South Africa's apartheid regime
- Cuba has jailed distributors of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US Constitution
- Lenin's State and Revolution
- In 1954, the Providence, RI, post office tried to block it's delivery to Brown University
- Ambrose Bierce's Can Such Things Be? - Not liked by the War Department in 1918
- In 1999, the government of China banned the Falun Gong sect and confiscated and destroyed books by their founder and other Falun Gong
- D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
Bible Banning
Bibles are a popular target for banning.
- The Bible and The Quran were both removed from numerous libraries and banned from import in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1956
- A 2000 US government report reported that Burma (also known as Myanmar) bans all Bible translations into local indigenous languages. - http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/irf/irf_rpt/irf_burma.html
- The military dictatorship of that country also required modems to be licensed
- Distributing Bibles, along with other forms of proselytizing by non-Muslims, is also banned in Saudi Arabia, according to this State Department report
- Saudi Arabian airport customs used to have a sign stating that arriving travelers should surrender their non-approved religious books to officials before entering the country. Currently, the Saudis generally allow western families to bring in their own Bibles, if they do not bring in more copies than expected for personal use
- Proselytizing by non-Muslims is also not allowed in Malaysia. Christian religious books printed for distribution in Malaysia must bear a legend prohibiting their distribution to Malays or Muslims.
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