Discover NC LIVE: Banned Books
Banned Books Week is an annual American Library Association event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States. View a list of some of the m
eBooks
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Portrait of a Lady by Edith Wharton
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Cliff's Notes on The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Bloom's Notes
Edited by Harold Bloom.
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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Videos
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Biographies of Banned and Challenged Authors
Willa Cather: The Road is All
Series: American Masters
Subject: The Arts, Biography
Mark Twain, Part 1
Mark Twain, Part 2
Series: Ken Burns
Subject: The Arts, Biography
Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
Series: American Masters
Subject: The Arts, Biography
Reviews & Criticism
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Includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, 75,000 articles of literary criticism, 130,000 author biographies, Full text of over 300 literary journals, 500,000 book reviews, 25,000 classic and contemporary poems, over 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories and 3,000 author interviews.
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Reader's advisory and recommendations for fiction and non-fiction. Searchable by title, author, and subject.
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