Romantic love: The most common delusion in Western culture
How one popular Western myth took over literature, music and movies?
BOOK: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Romantic love: The most common delusion in Western culture
Mafarka: Summary & analysis plus the controversial passages
Mafarka: Summary & analysis plus all the controversial passages
Read the obscene parts of the first two chapters that sent the Italian author to court
BOOK: MAFARKA THE FUTURIST
A Farewell to Arms: The dirty words you won’t find in the novel
A Farewell to Arms: The dirty words you won’t find in the novel
Hemingway’s work was banned despite replacing the “vulgar” words with dashes
BOOK: A FAREWELL TO ARMS
The Giver: The passages about euthanasia and suicide
The Giver: The passages about euthanasia and suicide
Why the dystopian novel was considered inappropriate for its young audience? Read the passages on euthanasia and suicide
BOOK: THE GIVER
Why Ovid’s Ars Amatoria is a challenging book to read
Why Ovid’s Ars Amatoria is a challenging book to read
The Roman “love guru” covered seduction, deception, jealousy, adultery, forceful sex and good sex
BOOK: THE ART OF LOVE
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Why was it banned?
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Why was it banned?
A girl seeks religion while dealing with puberty: her first bra, first period, and first crush. Was the book really anti-Christian?
BOOK: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
Ovid’s Art of Love: How to seduce and manipulate him with sex
Ovid’s Art of Love: How to seduce and manipulate him with sex
Ancient controversial advice: Why you should play tricks on him and when to offer your body as a “thank-you”
BOOK: THE ART OF LOVE
Ars amatoria: Controversial advice on sex and date rape from Rome
Ars amatoria: Controversial advice on love, sex and date rape from ancient Rome
Why The Art of Love by Ovid was repeatedly censored: burnt in Florence, banned in England and seized in the U.S.?
BOOK: THE ART OF LOVE
Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel
Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel
Why Philip Roth’s book is considered one of the dirtiest books ever published? He was also accused of Jewish self-hatred
BOOK: PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT
Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes
Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes
Why Gustave Flaubert was put on trial for Madame Bovary?
BOOK: MADAME BOVARY
Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages
Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages
Why was the 1950s French novel banned? It begins with O’s lover sexually training her: She is stripped, whipped and “gangbanged”
BOOK: STORY OF O
Carrie: The bloody parts
Carrie: The bloody parts
Why Stephen King’s Carrie is controversial? Read here all the controversial passages from the book
BOOK: CARRIE
The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on sex and drugs
The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging bits on sex and drugs
Controversial advice on sex and drugs from the schoolchildren’s book
BOOK: THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOOK
The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on education
The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging bits on education
Controversial advice from the schoolchildren’s book on education
BOOK: THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOOK
Candide: The shocking passages
Candide: The shocking passages
Condemned by the French government and the Catholic Church: Read the controversial passages from Voltaire’s Candide (1759)
BOOK: CANDIDE
The Awakening: The shocking passages
The Awakening: The shocking passages
What makes Kate Chopin’s The Awakening controversial?
BOOK: THE AWAKENING
