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Elmer Gantry was banned in the Irish Free State. [168] The House of Gold: Liam O'Flaherty: 1929 Novel The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013. [169] A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: 1929 Novel Suppressed in the Irish Free State. [167] Marriage and Morals: Bertrand Russell: 1929 Non ...
The American Library Association publishes a list of the top "Banned and Challenged Books" for any given year. [21] The American Library Association also organizes a "Banned Books Week", which is "an annual event celebrating the freedom to read." [21] The goal of the project is to bring awareness to banned books and promote the freedom to learn ...
Dawn Sova authored Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, an essay that lists books that have been banned or challenged on the preceding grounds to raise awareness of why books are censored. A few examples of this type of censorship are J. D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye , Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and Mark Twain 's ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools. The group previously documented ...
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported. [6] The list is sorted alphabetically by default.
Possession and use of copying machines was tightly controlled in order to hinder production and distribution of samizdat, i.e. self-published books and magazines that were banned by the Soviet state. [20] Possession of even a single samizdat manuscript, such as a book by Andrei Sinyavsky, was a serious crime which involved "a visit from the KGB ...
The case, which has become a landmark moment of free speech versus national security, has reached a climax after President Joe Biden signed an act to make TikTok illegal for distribution in the U ...