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Black Beauty (Completed) by BannedBooks
Black Beauty (Completed)
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Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by Anna Sewell, and reportedly banned by South Africa's apartheid regime. The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a horse named Black Beauty.
La San-Felice, Tome IV by gutenberg
La San-Felice, Tome IV
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The Scarlet Letter by gutenberg
The Scarlet Letter
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Socrate et sa femme by gutenberg
Socrate et sa femme
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Jerusalem Delivered (Completed) by BannedBooks
Jerusalem Delivered (Completed)
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This text was banned in the seventeenth century for being contrary to the ruling powers of Kings. "Jerusalem Delivered is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Catholic knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem."
The Call of the Wild (Completed) by BannedBooks
The Call of the Wild (Completed)
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This novel was removed from dictatorships in Europe during the the 1920s and 1930s. From Wikipedia: "The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Completed) by BannedBooks
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Completed)
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This book has a very controversial past, due to offensive wording. From Wikipedia: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in 1884. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism."
Le Ventre de Paris by gutenberg
Le Ventre de Paris
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