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Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury: Obscene language, references to smoking and drinking, violence, and religious themes 1953 — 69 — Fallen Angels: Walter Dean Myers: Offensive language, racism, violence 1988 85 11 36 The Family Book: Todd Parr: 2003 67 — — Family Secrets: Norma Klein
Upon its release, Fahrenheit 451 was a critical success, albeit with notable dissenters; the novel's subject matter led to its censorship in apartheid South Africa and various schools in the United States. In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.
In Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, about a culture which has outlawed books due to its disdain for learning, books are burned along with the houses they are hidden in. [3] [99] In the 1984 film Footloose book burning is a theme that in 2023 was linked to the Banned Books Week. [102]
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2]A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.
Now that over 1,600 books have been flagged in Escambia County schools for potential banning, one publisher is fighting back – and making their books even more accessible to Florida residents.
Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship , from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives.
The controversy over Gino’s novel comes at a time when conservative organizations, like the parental rights group Moms for Liberty, have organized nationwide book-banning efforts, which led to a ...
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been banned by several European governments. [1] [2] [3] This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government.