Top 10 "Obscene" Literary Classics
Sunday June 25, 2006
Category: Free Speech
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is widely regarded as his masterpiece, but U.S. book lovers had to wait 12 years before they were allowed to read it. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749) was notorious from the moment it was printed, but it couldn't actually be published in the United States until 1966. And Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1996) earned the young author her first Booker Prize, but also brought about an obscenity charge that went all the way to India's Supreme Court.
And I haven't even mentioned Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) yet.
Join me as we take a second look at literary classics that judges--or at least prosecutors--believed that we never should have been allowed to read.
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James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) is widely regarded as his masterpiece, but U.S. book lovers had to wait 12 years before they were allowed to read it. John Cleland's Fanny Hill (1749) was notorious from the moment it was printed, but it couldn't actually be published in the United States until 1966. And Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1996) earned the young author her first Booker Prize, but also brought about an obscenity charge that went all the way to India's Supreme Court.
And I haven't even mentioned Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) yet.
Join me as we take a second look at literary classics that judges--or at least prosecutors--believed that we never should have been allowed to read.
See also:
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