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Originally Posted by tribble
Those books are banned? Iread quite a few of them. Must be an american thing  because most of them were really good books. |
This particular list seems to be based on US prohibitions -- but there's also such a thing as Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Vatican list of prohibited books, abolished in 1966. It contained (from time to time) authors like Defoe, Voltaire, Copernicus, Kant, Berkeley, and many others.
Another web page that has been around for some time, but not as visibly as Google, is
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html .
A somewhat less visible censorship is probably still with us. When The Mitrokhin Archive, vol. 1, was published some years ago, and translated into german, it was noted that while the original english edition contained 1024 pages, the german translation had 848 -- and translations from english are very rarely shorter than the original. If I remember, in one chapter 10 end notes were found to have been dropped. (I don't know if anyone has traced down all the omissions, and analyzed them.)