Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Third Edition (Banned Books) Hardcover – July 1, 2011

Praise for the previous edition:"The summaries are sufficiently meaty to give the reader an understanding of the issues...Recommended for all public, school, and academic libraries." Library JournalThroughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles. Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Third Edition illustrates the extent and frequency of such censorship in nearly every form of writing. New and revised entries include: Animal Farm (George Orwell)The Appointment (Herta M ller)Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic)Burger's Daughter (Nadine Gordimer)Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)The Fugitive (Pramoedya Anata Toer)Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea)The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig)Manifesto of the Communist Party (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)Les Mis rables (Victor Hugo)Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) Snow (Orhan Pamuk)The Struggle Is My Life (Nelson Mandela)The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)The Van k Plays (V clav Havel)and more. Read more