Books and censorship

The list of banned, censored, and challenged books is long and illustrious. “Decameron” (1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio, and “Canterbury Tales” (1476) by Geoffrey Chaucer were banned from U. S. mail because of the Federal Anti-Obscenity Law of 1873, known as the Comstock Law. That law “banned the sending or receiving of works containing ‘obscene, ‘filthy,’ […]

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