It’s Banned Books Week! Through Friday, we’ll be featuring some notable classics that ha
It’s Banned Books Week! Through Friday, we’ll be featuring some notable classics that have drawn the ire of censors over the years. Well start with Margaret Mitchell’s historical romance, Gone With The Wind. It has been banned for many reasons over the years, from early concerns over blasphemous language and Scarlett’s personal choices to more modern concerns over racially charged slurs. Despite (or perhaps because of) attempts to limit circulation, the novel has become a fixture of modern American canon, exposing generation after generation to a white Southern woman’s view of life during Reconstruction.Here in the Noel Collection, we have a signed first edition, complete with the original dust jacket. (images from Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind (PS3525 .I972 G6 1936, Vault) -- source link
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