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: Sir Francis Bacon, editor: Joseph Devey |
The Advancement of Learning |
1605 |
| editor: Bruce Frohnen |
The American Republic: Primary Sources |
2002 |
| author: Confucius, translator: William Edward Soothill |
The Analects |
1910 |
| author: John Milton, editor: Sir Richard C. Jebb |
Areopagitica (Jebb ed.) |
1664 |
| author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution |
1775 |
| author: Voltaire |
Candide, ou l’Optimisme |
1759 |
| 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 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: 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: 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: William Shakespeare, editor: William James Craig |
King Lear |
1608 |
| author: Geoffrey Chaucer, editor: Walter W. Skeat |
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 4 (The Canterbury Tales) |
1899 |
| 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 |
| translator: Friedrich Max Müller, author: Immanuel Kant |
Critique of Pure Reason |
1881 |
| author: Dante Alighieri, translator: Courtney Langdon |
The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.) |
1321 |
| author: Homer, translator: Thomas Hobbes, editor: Sir William Molesworth |
The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 10 (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) |
1839 |
| author: David Hume, editor: Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals |
1777 |
| author: Michel de Montaigne, translator: Charles Cotton |
Essays of Montaigne, in 10 vols. |
1580 |
| 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: 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: 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: Mohammed, translator: Maulvi Muhammed Ali |
The Holy Qur-an (Koran |
1920 |
| 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: Desiderius Erasmus, illustrations: Hans Holbein |
In Praise of Folly |
1511 |
| author: John Calvin, translator: Henry Beveridge |
The Institutes of the Christian Religion |
1537 |
| author: Thomas Hobbes, introduction: William George Pogson Smith |
Leviathan (1909 ed) |
1651 |
| author: Desiderius Erasmus |
The Manual of a Christian Knight |
1501 |
| author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, translator: Thomas Holcroft |
The Marriage of Figaro (or the Follies of a Day) |
1784 |
| author: Réné Descartes, translator: John Veitch |
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes |
1637 |
| author: David Hume, introduction: John Mackinnon Robertson |
The Natural History of Religion (1889 ed.) |
1757 |
| author: Sir Francis Bacon, editor: Joseph Devey |
Novum Organum |
1620 |
| 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: John Milton, editor: Henry Charles Beeching |
The Poetical Works of John Milton |
1900 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: Sir William James Ashley |
Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (Ashley ed.) |
1848 |
| author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, editor: G.D.H. Cole |
The Social Contract and Discourses |
1761 |
| author: David Hume, editor: Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge |
A Treatise of Human Nature (1896 ed.) |
1739 |
| author: John Locke |
The Works of John Locke, vol. 1 (An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 1) |
1689 |
| author: Voltaire, introduction: Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, notes: Tobias Smollett, translator: William F. Fleming |
The Works of Voltaire, Vol. I (Candide) |
1759 |
| author: Voltaire, translator: William F. Fleming |
The Works of Voltaire, Vol. XIX (Philosophical Letters) |
1733 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. II (1779-1792) |
1779 |
| author: Thomas Paine, editor: Moncure Daniel Conway |
The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. IV (1791-1804) |
1791 |
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