Subject: Censorship (Keywords)

Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is 'acceptable' in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture. 'Banned Books' explores why some of the world's most important literary classics and seminal...

A collection of essays exploring the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world - from some of the biggest and most respected writers today..

Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, 'Burning the Books' takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it.

Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, 'Burning the Books' takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it.

The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. A history of literary censorship is therefore a history not only of texts but of the authorities that have attempted to prevent their circulation: sovereigns, politi...

Using unprecedented access to the original archives, Yvonne Ward investigates the two literary men who were tasked with editing the vast correspondence of Queen Victoria after she died. The book they produced would change how she was remembered forever - but it was not the full story.