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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence ' s novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley ' s Lover is no longer distinguished for the once shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter- the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the gamekeeper who works for the estate owned by her husband.. When the full unexpurgated edition was published by Penguin Books in Britain in 1960, the trial of Penguin under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 was a major public event and a test of the new obscenity law.
This book powerfully demonstrates the importance of democracy and freedom of speech. It is still relevant today with its tale of corruption and misinformation in a worker ' s revolution that goes wrong. In the 1940s, Allied forces found the book critical of the USSR, and therefore considered too controversial to print during wartime. A play of Animal Farm was banned in Kenya in 1991, because of its criticism of corrupt leaders. In 2002 it was banned in schools in the United Arab Emirates.
Banned in 1857 for its portrayal of adultery, the novel traces the story of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor ' s wife, and her unsuccessful affairs. "
Banned for its offensive language, sexually explicit.
It has been banned in some US schools and libraries on grounds of pornography & violence.
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