Banned Books from Anne Haight's list

L'Innocente

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Il romanzo si presenta come un confessionale interiore di Tullio Hermil, un uomo che, a distanza di anni dal…

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work is an early‑modern essay on education, written by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau as a series of “scattered…

De Lof der Zotheid

Desiderius Erasmus

De Lof der Zotheid, beter bekend als Moriae Encomium, is Erasmus’ satirische lofzang op de dwaasheid, een…

The Critique of Practical Reason

Immanuel Kant

The work is Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, a philosophical treatise that sets out to…

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete

Giacomo Casanova

La Gioconda

Gabriele D'Annunzio

La Gioconda di Gabriele D'Annunzio è una tragedia drammatica ambientata in una stanza quadrata, dove l’ordine…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion

Havelock Ellis

This volume is a scholarly treatise on what Ellis calls “sexual inversion,” a term he distinguishes from…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

Havelock Ellis

The sixth volume of Havelock Ellis’s Studies in the Psychology of Sex shifts from the individual sexual…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

Jonathan Swift

The volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s “Drapier’s Letters,” a series of political pamphlets written in the early…

The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a biographical‑fictional meditation on the life of Saint Antony, the Egyptian hermit of the…

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure is a Victorian novel that frames its story as a “didactic” meditation on…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The play opens in the bustling streets of Venice, where friends Solanio and Salarino tease the melancholy…

The Odyssey

Homer

The work before you is a translation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, presented alongside a scholarly essay…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Ce roman s’inscrit dans la tradition du roman domestique du XIXᵉ siècle, où les thèmes de l’adultère, du…

Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

Havelock Ellis

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 is a scholarly treatise that gathers three extensive essays on the…

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is a didactic, epistolary novel that foregrounds moral instruction through the…

The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)

Confucius

The Analects presents the sayings and dialogues of Confucius as they were recorded by his disciples, offering…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy

Havelock Ellis

The work is a scholarly treatise on human sexuality, the fifth volume in Havelock Ellis’s multi‑part “Studies…

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

The volume gathers a selection of Tolstoy’s short fiction, each introduced by a reflective essay on…

Mrs. Warren's Profession

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession is a stage drama that confronts the gritty realities of working‑class…

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen

The work is Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, a domestic tragedy that foregrounds the tangled relations of a Norwegian…

The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon

The work before you is Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning, a seventeenth‑century treatise that opens…

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman opens with a sprawling, self‑referential address that frames the play as a…