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Book-banning is an unfortunate feature of our civilization, and it's been around for quite a while. Some books generate more controversy and get banned far more than others. This collection was created to assemble them under one umbrella. This book features an introductory essay on the state of US book censorship in 2023, as well as historical context and commentary for all 32 books contained within. The titles include:

1. Adam Bede (1859) By George Eliot

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) By Mark Twain

3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) By Mark Twain

5. The Age of Reason (1794) By Thomas Paine

6. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865) By Lewis Carroll

7. An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser

8. The Awakening (1899) By Kate Chopin

9. The Call of The Wild (1903) By Jack London

10. Candide (1759) By Voltaire

11. Confessions (1782) By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12. Droll Stories (1831) By Honore De Balzac

13. The Decameron (1353) By Giovanni Boccaccio

14. Elmer Gantry (1927) Sinclair Lewis

15. Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) By John Cleland

16. The Great Gatsby (1925) By F. Scott Fitzgerald

17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) By Victor Hugo

18. The Jungle (1906) By Upton Sinclair

19. Leaves of Grass (1897) By Walt Whitman

20. Lysistrata (411BC) By Aristophanes

21. Madame Bovary (1857) By Gustave Flaubert

22. Moll Flanders (1722) By Daniel Defoe

23. The Rights of Man (1791) By Thomas Paine

24. Salammbo (1896) By Gustave Flaubert

25. Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) By George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

26. Sister Carrie (1900) By Theodore Dreiser

27. Sons and Lovers (1913) By D.H. Lawrence

28. The Scarlet Letter (1850) By Nathaniel Hawthorne

29. The Sun Also Rises (1926) By Ernest Hemingway

30. Ulysses (1922) By James Joyce

31. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) By Harriet Beecher Stowe

32. Women In Love (1920) By D. H. Lawrence

All the original formatting and indentation has been preserved: if some paragraphs seem abnormally long, that's by design. Unfortunately, due to e-book size constraints, all the original book illustrations had to be removed.

With an introduction by Darryl Jones, this must-listen collection brings together over thirty of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Gothic tales. Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best Gothic tales. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life—as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule—and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.

The eccentric Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a plateau in South America where dinosaurs and other prehistoric life still flourish. Originally published in 1912.

Adventure tales set during the Napoleonic war.

Sherlock Holmes detective story.

Medieval adventure.

Just returned from his famous adventure in the Lost World, the resourceful Professor George Challenger faces his greatest danger yet: Earth will pass through a belt of poisonour ether, and mankind might not survive. As the poison enters the atmosphere, terror and madness sweep the globe. Cities are wracked by riots, societies crumble, and soon all communication ceases. Professor Challenger andhis friends, barricaded in a sealed room, can only watch their planet die.