Banned Books from Anne Haight's list

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The book is a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure that follows Huck Finn as he slips away from the Widow…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, that places the famed…

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The work is a comic, eighteenth‑century novel that treats the growth of a young man from foundling to adult…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work is a historical‑political treatise that traces the life of Niccolò Machiavelli against the turbulent…

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks

Vatsyayana

The work presented is a nineteenth‑century English translation of Vatsyayana’s Sanskrit treatise on love,…

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift

The work is a satirical travel narrative that presents itself as the manuscript of Lemuel Gulliver, a retired…

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work is an epistolary novel that opens with a series of letters from the sensitive young protagonist,…

The call of the wild

Jack London

Jack London’s story opens in the lush, sun‑kissed estate of Judge Miller, where the massive St.

Dubliners

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories that paints a vivid portrait of everyday life in the…

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a 16th‑century Spanish picaresque romance that follows the first “sally” of the self‑styled…

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a sprawling celebration of the self and the nation, presented as a series of lyrical…

Candide

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Candide is an eighteenth‑century satirical novella that launches with a crisp, almost theatrical…

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories is a late‑19th‑century work that places its characters in the…

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Thomas Hardy

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic novel that weaves together themes of poverty, social hierarchy, and…

On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Charles Darwin

The work is a scientific treatise that sets out Charles Darwin’s case for evolution by natural selection.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, translated into English and illustrated by Norman…

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

Michel de Montaigne

The work is a complete edition of Michel de Montaigne’s French essays rendered into English, presenting the…

Pascal's Pensées

Blaise Pascal

Pascal’s Pensées is a theological‑apologetic treatise that opens with a preface to its second part, in which…

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work is an English rendering of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s first part of Faust, presented in the…