Suppressed Books

The author gives a perceptive and comprehensive evaluation of the grave problem of literary suppression and offers a classic declaration for freedom of expression.

Morris L. Ernst writes in the foreword of this volume: "It seems clear to me that all readers who are interested in liberty of the market place of thought may conclude, as I do, that this documented history of attacks on literature in England and the United States tells a more persuasive story even than the great exhortation of Milton's Areopagitica. This volume, if widely read not only by lawyers and judges, but by all folk, can be an effective instrument to tidy up the law of censorship. It might even educate us to a more adult approach to the mystery of life."

Alec Craig. Suppressed Books: A History of the Conception of Literary Obscenity. First Edition. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1963. Hardcover. 285pp.