Banned Books from Anne Haight's list

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

The fourth volume of Thomas Paine’s collected writings presents the second part of his controversial work The…

Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

R. W. (Richard William); Dante Alighieri Church

The work is a scholarly essay by the Rev. R. W. Church, first published in the mid‑nineteenth century,…

La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete

Dante Alighieri

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a comic, self‑reflective travel narrative…

Lettres persanes, tome I

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Ce premier tome des Lettres persanes, œuvre épistolaire de Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, s’ouvre…

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love

Emanuel Swedenborg

The work is a theological dialogue in which Emanuel Swedenborg presents a vision of an angelic assembly…

Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

Martin Luther

This work is a theological treatise in which Martin Luther, the German reformer, argues against the papal…

Napoleon the Little

Victor Hugo

A Tale of a Tub

Jonathan Swift

The work opens with a sprawling, self‑conscious dedication in which the unnamed bookseller‑author explains…

Meditationes de prima philosophia

René Descartes

Meditationes de prima philosophia sunt tractatus philosophicus, in quo René Descartes quaerit demonstratio de…

The Decameron, Volume I

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron is a medieval frame narrative that gathers a hundred short tales told by a group of young…

The Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

The work is a satirical essay in which Erasmus adopts the persona of Folly herself, delivering a mock‑sermon…

The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana

Daniel Defoe

The work is a sprawling historical‑fiction narrative that blends picaresque adventure with a…

Poems & Ballads (First Series)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The volume is Swinburne’s first collection of poems and ballads, a self‑conscious survey of his early lyrical…

Jerusalem Delivered

Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered is an Italian epic poem that dramatizes the First Crusade, focusing on…

Die Leiden des jungen Werther — Band 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der Roman ist ein Briefroman, in dem der Ich‑Erzähler an einen vertrauten Freund schreibt und seine…

Sinister Street, vol. 1

Compton MacKenzie

Sinister Street is a sprawling Bildungsroman that follows the first half of a young man’s twenty‑five‑year…

Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories

Guy de Maupassant

The volume gathers a selection of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories, each originally written in French and…

The "Genius"

Theodore Dreiser

The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1

James Legge

First Footsteps in East Africa

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Commercial Restraints of Ireland

John Hely-Hutchinson

The Decameron, Volume II

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Child of Pleasure

Gabriele D'Annunzio