Many of the works in the Online Library of Liberty have been banned or censored at various times by governments, established churches, and pubic schools for their content. This list has been compiled from the following sources:
| authors and editors |
title |
pub. date ↑ |
| author: Dante Alighieri, translator: Courtney Langdon |
The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.) |
1321 |
| author: Desiderius Erasmus |
The Manual of a Christian Knight |
1501 |
| author: Desiderius Erasmus, illustrations: Hans Holbein |
In Praise of Folly |
1511 |
| author: Niccolo Machiavelli, translator: Christian Detmold |
The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings, vol. 2 (The Prince, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, Thoughts of a Statesman) |
1513 |
| author: Desiderius Erasmus, translator: N. Bailey, editor: Rev. E. Johnson |
The Colloquies 2 vols. |
1518 |
| author: Desiderius Erasmus, translator: Thomas Paynell |
The Complaint of Peace |
1521 |
| author: John Calvin, translator: Henry Beveridge |
The Institutes of the Christian Religion |
1537 |
| author: Michel de Montaigne, translator: Charles Cotton |
Essays of Montaigne, in 10 vols. |
1580 |
| author: Sir Francis Bacon, editor: Joseph Devey |
The Advancement of Learning |
1605 |
| author: William Shakespeare, editor: William James Craig |
King Lear |
1608 |
| author: Sir Francis Bacon, editor: Joseph Devey |
Novum Organum |
1620 |
| author: William Shakespeare, editor: William James Craig |
The Merchant of Venice |
1623 |
| author: William Shakespeare, editor: William James Craig |
Twelfth-Night: or, What You Will |
1623 |
| author: William Shakespeare, editor: William James Craig |
Macbeth |
1623 |
| author: Réné Descartes, translator: John Veitch |
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes |
1637 |
| author: Thomas Hobbes, introduction: William George Pogson Smith |
Leviathan (1909 ed) |
1651 |
| author: John Milton, editor: Sir Richard C. Jebb |
Areopagitica (Jebb ed.) |
1664 |
| author: Benedict de Spinoza, translator: Robert Harvey Monro Elwes |
The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol 1 (Tractatus-Theologico-Politicus, Tractatus Politicus) |
1670 |
| author: John Locke |
The Works of John Locke, vol. 1 (An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 1) |
1689 |
| author: Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu |
Complete Works, vol. 3 (Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire; A Dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates; Persian Letters) |
1721 |
| author: Voltaire, translator: William F. Fleming |
The Works of Voltaire, Vol. XIX (Philosophical Letters) |
1733 |
| author: David Hume, editor: Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
A Treatise of Human Nature (1896 ed.) |
1739 |
| author: David Hume, introduction: John Mackinnon Robertson |
The Natural History of Religion (1889 ed.) |
1757 |
| author: Voltaire |
Candide, ou l’Optimisme |
1759 |
| author: Voltaire, introduction: Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, notes: Tobias Smollett, translator: William F. Fleming |
The Works of Voltaire, Vol. I (Candide) |
1759 |
| author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, editor: G.D.H. Cole |
The Social Contract and Discourses |
1761 |
| author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution |
1775 |
| author: Adam Smith, editor: Roy Harold Campbell, editor: Andrew S. Skinner |
Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 2a An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1 |
1776 |
| author: Edward Gibbon, editor: John Bagnell Bury, introduction: William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. |
1776 |
| author: David Hume, editor: Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals |
1777 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. II (1779-1792) |
1779 |
| author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, translator: Thomas Holcroft |
The Marriage of Figaro (or the Follies of a Day) |
1784 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. IV (1791-1804) |
1791 |
| author: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet |
Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind |
1795 |
| author: David Hume |
The Philosophical Works of David Hume, 4 vols. |
1828 |
| author: Homer, translator: Thomas Hobbes, editor: Sir William Molesworth |
The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) |
1839 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: John M. Robson, introduction: Vincent Wheeler Bladen |
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume II - The Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (Books I-II) |
1848 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: Sir William James Ashley |
Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (Ashley ed.) |
1848 |
| translator: Friedrich Max Müller, author: Immanuel Kant |
Critique of Pure Reason |
1881 |
| author: Geoffrey Chaucer, editor: Walter W. Skeat |
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 4 (The Canterbury Tales) |
1899 |
| author: John Milton, editor: Henry Charles Beeching |
The Poetical Works of John Milton |
1900 |
| author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author: Sir Thomas More, author: Sir Francis Bacon, author: Tommaso Campanella, introduction: Charles M. Andrews |
Ideal Empires and Republics. Rousseau’s Social Contract, More’s Utopia, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Campanella’s City of the Sun |
1901 |
| author: Confucius, translator: William Edward Soothill |
The Analects |
1910 |
| author: Mohammed, translator: Maulvi Muhammed Ali |
The Holy Qur-an (Koran |
1920 |
| editor: Bruce Frohnen |
The American Republic: Primary Sources |
2002 |
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