Summary

Praise for the previous edition:
"The set is highly recommended as a gateway into censorship for any library..."—Choice

"...this well-researched, authoritative series is timely. Highly recommended."—The Book Report

"...indispensable to libraries and classrooms in high schools and institutions of higher learning."—American Reference Books Annual

"The writing is clear, evenhanded, and accessible to secondary-school students and beyond...provides valuable perspective on the study of literature and censorship and is recommended for high school, public, and academic libraries."—Booklist

"...the set is a very readable gathering of much useful information."—Library Journal

"Patrons deserve access to this information and exposure to such careful scholarship and high-quality book making."—VOYA

A Revised Collection of Banned Writers and Their Work—from Around the World

The four-volume Banned Books, Revised Edition set offers an eye-opening look at works of literature that have been censored around the globe and throughout history. More than 50 new entries have been added, and the more than 400 existing entries have been updated to reflect recent controversies. Each clearly written, curriculum-oriented entry presents a publishing history, a summary of contents, and the record of censorship of a well-known, often classic, work. This fascinating set is an essential reference to the contents, contexts, and controversies of banned titles for students and teachers.

New and updated entries include:

• America: The Book (Jon Stewart)
• The Basketball Diaries (Jim Carroll)
• Bus Stop (Gao Xingjian)
• Captain Underpants series (Dav Pilkey)
• Forever (Judy Blume)
• Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
• Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling)
• The Man Died (Wole Soyinka)
• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
• On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
• The Politics of Dispossession (Edward Said)
• The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
• Sex (Madonna)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• Waiting (Ha Jin)
• We All Fall Down (Robert Cormier)
• The Witches (Roald Dahl)
• Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (Shahrnush Parsipur).

Individual titles: