Curated playlist
Censored books
- TalmudThe Talmud keeps the losing arguments beside the winning ones. Rejected statements were never edited out.
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnIn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck believes he will go to hell and still vows to free Jim.
- FrankensteinBoris Karloff's lightning-jolted monster is not what Mary Shelley wrote. That image came largely from a 1931 film.
- Ulysses (novel)The novel Ulysses follows one ordinary day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904. Its hero is a Jewish advertising canvasser.
- Carrie (novel)Stephen King threw his first Carrie pages in the trash, and his wife pulled them out.
- Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleGandhi wrote the book Hind Swaraj on a ship, and Britain banned it within a year. He wrote it in Gujarati in 1909.
- The Canterbury TalesChaucer planned around 120 stories for The Canterbury Tales but only 24 survive.
- NCERT textbook controversiesIndia's NCERT removed Darwin's theory of evolution from its Class 10 Science textbook.
- The Second SexThe Vatican banned Simone de Beauvoir's book The Second Sex. It sold around 22,000 copies within a week in France.
- Letters on the EnglishVoltaire's Letters on the English was seized and burned in France within a year of its 1733 printing.