Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, Don B. Souva, and Alexey Evstratov. 100 Banned Books: A Censored History of World Literature

Did you know that "A Thousand and One Nights," Ovid's "The Science of Love," and many of Ostrovsky's plays were banned from publication, sparking a series of scandals, lawsuits, and the confiscation of copies right at the printers? Not to mention Orwell's "Animal Farm" or "The Communist Manifesto." Throughout human history, books, new and old, have been censored and secretly passed from hand to hand. Conflicting parties argue pro and con, books are burned in public squares, authors emigrate, are imprisoned, and the black market trades in banned literature. "One Hundred Banned Books" is a collection of stories about books officially deemed "dangerous to society."