Banned Books
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. Among these are:
- a number of translations of the Bible
- the Koran
- the U.S. Constitution
Some famous authors whose works have been banned include (in alphabetical order):
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- John Calvin
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
- Confucius
- Dante
- Réné Descartes
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Galileo
- Edward Gibbon
- Thomas Hobbes
- Homer
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- John Locke
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- John Stuart Mill
- John Milton
- Michel de Montaigne
- Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- Thomas Paine
- Blaise Pascal
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- William Shakespeare
- Adam Smith
- Benedict de Spinoza
- Voltaire
This list has been compiled from the following sources:
- ALA Banned Books Week
- Google Explore Banned Books
- University of Pennsylvania The Online Books Page - Banned Books Online
- Wikipedia List of Banned Books
- Instances of Censorship throughout History
- Index of Prohibited Books 1557-1966 (Fordham University)
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