Banned Books from Anne Haight's list

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

Lewis Carroll

This edition presents Lewis Carroll’s whimsical fantasy for children, a tale that begins with a very ordinary…

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire

Ce volume est le recueil poétique de Charles Baudelaire, publié pour la première fois en 1857 et…

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary presents itself as a compendium of concise essays on a wide range of…

Adam Bede

George Eliot

George Eliot’s opening places the reader in a bustling rural workshop on a summer day in 1799, introducing a…

Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

Molière

Molière’s Tartuffe, The Hypocrite is a French comedy of the seventeenth century, rendered here in an English…

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man

Havelock Ellis

This volume is a scholarly attempt to sketch the still‑emerging field of sexual selection in humans, treating…

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an autobiographical work of domestic fiction set in a nineteenth‑century English mining…

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume brings together three of Sir Thomas Browne’s most celebrated writings, Religio Medici, a…

Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle

Stendhal

Ce roman, classé parmi les Bildungsromans, se déploie d’abord comme une peinture détaillée d’une petite ville…

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Sullivan, Arthur; Gilbert, W. S.

The Chinese Classics — Volume 1: Confucian Analects

James Legge

The Chinese Classics, Volume 1 presents James Legge’s nineteenth‑century English rendering of the Analects,…

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Ce roman historique, signé Victor Hugo, s’ouvre sur une méditation acerbe à propos des dégradations subies…

The Birds

Aristophanes

Aristophanes’ The Birds is a full‑blown comedy that launches with two weary Athenians, Euelpides and…

Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England

John Milton

This work is John Milton’s 1644 parliamentary address defending the freedom to print without prior licensing.

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love is a psychological novel that opens in the modest Brangwen household of a Midlands mining town,…

The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a domestic‑fiction set in the English Midlands, tracing the Brangwen family’s life on Marsh Farm…

The Robbers

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller’s The Robbers is a German tragedy translated into English, centered on the tangled fates…

The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

The volume gathers Heinrich Heine’s prose, presenting the writer not merely as the lyrical genius compared…

Salammbo

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens with a sprawling banquet set in a Carthaginian garden, where a motley crowd of mercenaries,…

The Golden Asse

Apuleius

The work is a Roman novel of the “Metamorphosis” type, attributed to Apuleius and presented here under the…

Émile; Or, Concerning Education; Extracts

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The work presented is a selective excerpt from Jean‑Jacques Rousseau’s three‑volume treatise Émile, rendered…

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

The volume presents Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man,” the second part of his polemic against Edmund Burke’s…

The Clouds

Aristophanes

The Clouds is a Greek comedy by Aristophanes, presented here in an English translation that preserves the…

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4

John Locke

This volume presents the second part of John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, drawn from the…