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  • Uncensored!
    • Candide: The shocking passages
    • Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages
    • Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes
    • Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages
    • The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on education
    • What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?
    • Why Italy banned Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms?
    • Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel
    • The Metamorphosis: The final scene is more disturbing than the first
    • Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves
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    • A Light in the Attic: Controversial poems
    • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Why was it banned?
    • Ars amatoria: Controversial advice on sex and date rape from Rome
    • A Farewell to Arms: All the dirty words you won’t find in the novel
    • The Jihadi Manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones
    • A Wrinkle in Time: Is it blasphemous or too Christian?
    • Roald Dahl’s The Witches: The paragraphs critics called sexist
    • Carrie: The bloody parts
    • The Sorrows of Young Werther: These passages inspired suicide
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    • Voltaire’s radical views on race and slavery
    • Why Voltaire mocked Canada as ‘a few acres of snow’?
    • In Britain ‘it is good to kill an admiral from time to time’
    • When “flower children” spurred kids to abandon childhood
    • The Communist Manifesto in 35 historical photos
    • Building Utopia: The most important pre-Marx socialists
    • Why Marx attacked rival socialists as ‘reactionary’ and ‘utopian’?
    • Women in 19th-century novels: Rebellious wives had to die!
    • O for objectification: When a woman allows men to use her
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Uncensored: Quotes & summaries from banned and censored books. View this list in thumbnails.

Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves


Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves

Black Code: One of the earliest and most important legal documents on slavery in the West

BOOK: CODE NOIR

Posted on November 15, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

The Metamorphosis: Why Kafka’s final scene is more haunting than the first


The Metamorphosis: Why Kafka’s final scene is even more haunting than the first

Why Nazi and Soviet authorities banned Kafka’s novel?

BOOK: THE METAMORPHOSIS

Posted on October 24, 2018January 8, 2021 by Zak Felix

Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes


Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes

Why Gustave Flaubert was put on trial for Madame Bovary?

BOOK: MADAME BOVARY

Posted on October 24, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?


What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?

Why The Communist Manifesto is one of the most controversial books of all time? Read the revolutionary and controversial words

BOOK: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Posted on July 6, 2018December 31, 2021 by Zak Felix

Histoire d’O : Les extraits sadomasochistes

La raison Histoire d’O choque encore

Posted on June 2, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages


Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages

Why was the 1950s French novel banned? It begins with O’s lover sexually training her: She is stripped, whipped and “gangbanged”

BOOK: STORY OF O

Posted on May 27, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Carrie: The bloody parts


Carrie: The bloody parts

Why Stephen King’s Carrie is controversial? Read here all the controversial passages from the book

BOOK: CARRIE

Posted on January 21, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on sex and drugs


The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging bits on sex and drugs

Controversial advice on sex and drugs from the schoolchildren’s book

BOOK: THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOOK

Posted on January 1, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on education


The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging bits on education

Controversial advice from the schoolchildren’s book on education

BOOK: THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOOK

Posted on January 1, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

A Light in the Attic: The controversial poems


A Light in the Attic: The controversial poems

Read the controversial poems by Shel Silverstein deemed by some parents and teachers too controversial for children

BOOK: A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

Posted on December 31, 2017March 6, 2021 by Zak Felix

Candide de Voltaire: Les citations les plus controversées

Candide ou l’Optimisme (1759)

Posted on December 6, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Candide: The shocking passages


Candide: The shocking passages

Condemned by the French government and the Catholic Church: Read the controversial passages from Voltaire’s Candide (1759)

BOOK: CANDIDE

Posted on December 1, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages


Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages

What makes John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men controversial?

BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN

Posted on October 13, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

The Awakening: The shocking passages


The Awakening: The shocking passages

What makes Kate Chopin’s The Awakening controversial?

BOOK: THE AWAKENING

Posted on August 28, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

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