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:
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title |
pub. date |
| author: Sir Francis Bacon, editor: Joseph Devey |
The Advancement of Learning |
1605 |
| author: Sir Francis Bacon, editor: Joseph Devey |
Novum Organum |
1620 |
| author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
The Barber of Seville, or the Useless Precaution |
1775 |
| author: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, translator: Thomas Holcroft |
The Marriage of Figaro (or the Follies of a Day) |
1784 |
| author: John Calvin, translator: Henry Beveridge |
The Institutes of the Christian Religion |
1537 |
| author: Geoffrey Chaucer, editor: Walter W. Skeat |
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 4 (The Canterbury Tales) |
1899 |
| author: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet |
Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind |
1795 |
| author: Confucius, translator: William Edward Soothill |
The Analects |
1910 |
| author: Dante Alighieri, translator: Courtney Langdon |
The Divine Comedy, in 3 vols. (Langdon trans.) |
1321 |
| author: Réné Descartes, translator: John Veitch |
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes |
1637 |
| 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: Desiderius Erasmus, illustrations: Hans Holbein |
In Praise of Folly |
1511 |
| author: Desiderius Erasmus |
The Manual of a Christian Knight |
1501 |
| editor: Bruce Frohnen |
The American Republic: Primary Sources |
2002 |
| 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: Thomas Hobbes, introduction: William George Pogson Smith |
Leviathan (1909 ed) |
1651 |
| 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: David Hume, introduction: John Mackinnon Robertson |
The Natural History of Religion (1889 ed.) |
1757 |
| author: David Hume |
The Philosophical Works of David Hume, 4 vols. |
1828 |
| 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: 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: 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 |
| author: John Milton, editor: Sir Richard C. Jebb |
Areopagitica (Jebb ed.) |
1664 |
| author: John Milton, editor: Henry Charles Beeching |
The Poetical Works of John Milton |
1900 |
| author: Mohammed, translator: Maulvi Muhammed Ali |
The Holy Qur-an (Koran |
1920 |
| author: Michel de Montaigne, translator: Charles Cotton |
Essays of Montaigne, in 10 vols. |
1580 |
| 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: 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 |
| 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: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, editor: G.D.H. Cole |
The Social Contract and Discourses |
1761 |
| 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: 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: Benedict de Spinoza, translator: Robert Harvey Monro Elwes |
The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol 1 (Tractatus-Theologico-Politicus, Tractatus Politicus) |
1670 |
| 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: Voltaire, translator: William F. Fleming |
The Works of Voltaire, Vol. XIX (Philosophical Letters) |
1733 |
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