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Sunday 23 August 2015

BANNED BOOKS

THE FAMOUS FIVE -ENID BLYTON-BANNED BY B.B.C FOR 30YEARS DUE TO IT LACKED LITERARY VALUE.HARRY POTTER AND PHILOSOPHERS STONE - J.F.ROWLING-BLOCKED BY RELIGIOUS GROUPS FOR PROMOTING WITCHCRAFT.WHERES WALLY MARTIN HANDFORD - AMERICAN LIBERARIES DITCHED IT IN 1990 WHEN WALLY WAS SEEN IN A CROWD OF SUNBATHERS -ONE WAS TOPLESS.ALICE IN WONDERLAND-LEWIS CARROL-1931 BANNED IN BITS OF CHINA FOR DEPICTING ANIMALS AND HUMANS ON SAME LEVEL. . TWILIGHT-STEPENIE MEYER -OUTLAWED IN AUSTRLIAN SCHOOLS DUE TO THEIR SEXUAL CONTENT EXPLICT.TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD - HARPER LEE -HIT WITH TEMPORARY BABS IN AMERICA FOR RACISM.DOCTOR ZHIVAGO-BORIS PASTERNAK-BANNED IN U.S.S.R UNTILL 1988 AND AUTHOR WAS FORCED BY OFFICIALS TO TURN DOWN NOBEL PRIZE.LOLITA -VLADIMIR NABOKOV- DUE TO COTENT OF STORY ABOUT A MIDDLE AGED MAN AND HIS LOVE FOR A 12 YEAR OLD BOY LED TO BRITISH CUSTOMS SEIZING ALL COPIES AFTER ITS PUBLICATION IN 1955.A STUDY IN SCARLET -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE-BARRED BY MANLY IN VIRGINA,AMERICA DUE TO ALLEGDLY NEGATIVE PORTRAYAL OF MORMONS.ANIMAL FARM -GEORGE ORWELL - BANNED UNTILL 1980,S AND IN U.A.E BOYCOTTED IT FROM SCHOOLS AS ITS TALKING PIGS AGAINST ISAMIC VALUES.

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