Banned Books from Anne Haight's list

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s Notre‑Dame de Paris is a sprawling historical novel that intertwines the fate of a medieval…

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Paradise Lost is an epic poem that sets out to recount the first disobedience of humanity and the ensuing…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that foregrounds the lives of a provincial French middle‑class family, with…

In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts

Desiderius Erasmus

This edition presents Desiderius Erasmus’s celebrated satire In Praise of Folly together with a series of…

Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is a five‑volume French work rendered here in English, beginning…

The Communist Manifesto

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet that sets out the theory and aims of the communist movement…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2

John Locke

This work is John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, the first volume of his 1690 treatise on…

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is a scientific treatise that sets out a theory of evolution by…

The Satyricon — Complete

Petronius Arbiter

The Satyricon is a Roman work of fiction that blends satire with vivid depictions of everyday life in ancient…

The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Christopher Marlowe

The volume presents the third part of Christopher Marlowe’s collected works, edited by H.

Faust: Eine Tragödie [erster Teil]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der erste Teil von Goethes Faust ist ein dramatisches Gedicht, das zugleich als Prolog und als Vorwort zu…

Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)

John Cleland

The work is an eighteenth‑century English novel that presents itself as the frank memoir of Frances Hill, a…

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a continuation of Cervantes’s celebrated Spanish picaresque, presenting the eighth chapter of the…

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The novel opens in a bustling back‑room of a Chicago saloon, where a Lithuanian wedding is in full swing.

La Divina Commedia di Dante

Dante Alighieri

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a monumental, twelve‑volume…

Reigen: Zehn Dialoge

Arthur Schnitzler

Esprit des lois livres I à V, précédés d'une introduction de l'éditeur

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Ce volume rassemble les cinq livres de l’« Esprit des lois », chef‑d’œuvre de Montesquieu, précédés d’une…

La dame aux camélias

Alexandre Dumas

Ce roman s’ouvre sur le récit d’une visite d’une vente aux enchères d’un appartement parisien où, trois…

Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete

Jean de La Fontaine

This volume gathers the lesser‑known tales and novels that Jean de La Fontaine assembled late in his career,…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism

Havelock Ellis

The work is a scholarly treatise on sexual psychology written by Havelock Ellis, first issued at the turn of…

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill’s A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is a nineteenth‑century treatise that seeks…

Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy

John Stuart Mill

This edition presents an abridged version of John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy, supplemented…

Isaotta Guttadàuro ed altre poesie

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Il volume è una raccolta di poesie che prende il nome da Isaotta Guttadàuro, figura mitica a cui il poeta si…