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Grimm's Fairy Stories (Completed)
Concern over activities, such as Red Riding Hood bringing wine to her grandmother, caused this title to be removed from some schools. This is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Completed)
This classic has been banned for various reasons, including the animal's abilities to use human language to communicate. Alice in Wonderland is an 1856 novel by Lewis Carroll. "It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creature...
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The Blue Lagoon
Adapted into a film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, this is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1908. In the Victorian period, two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook, Paddy Button survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropica...
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Complete)
Shakespeare's play was banned at one time because of adult language and references to mature themes and violence. "The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Ha...
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Twelfth Night (Completed)
Shakespeare's play was banned at one time because of concern over a character dressing as the opposite sex. Twelfth Night is William Shakespeare's "comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves."
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The Three Musketeers
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (October 2011), based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe...
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Persuasion
Adapted into a Major Motion Picture (1995) and TV series (2007), this is the ebook version of Jane Austen's classic novel. Anne fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and...
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Wuthering Heights
A poor young English boy named Heathcliff is taken in by the wealthy Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.
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