Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago) where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to powerful men and later a...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. This is Madame Bovary by...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. This is Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, this release highlights why certain books have been challenge...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burke's defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Revolution, and in plain layman's language traces the birth and fallacy of monarchy, and the source of man's inalienable rights. This is Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine - a suppressed political classic. Featured on Bann...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within three months, 120,000 copies are alleged to have been distributed throughout the colonies, which themselves totaled only four million free inhabitants, making it the best-selling work in 18th-century America. This is...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Author: Charles Dickens Length: 43 hours 30 mi...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the wild and eventually brought to civilization. This is White Fang by Jack London Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, this release highlights why certain books have been challenged, restricted...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel is constructed as a series of first-person narratives, delivered by Captain Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and his Creature, which makes it perfect for a dramatic reading. This is Frankenstein, or The Modern Pro...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Among the most "banned" books in the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. This is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Featured on Banned...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the one thing that perhaps men enjoy more than killing each other. This is Lysistrata (Remastered) by Aristophanes - a suppressed political cla...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, told through a series of journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, and telegrams. This is Dracula (version 2 dramatic reading) by Bram Stoker - a suppressed political classic. Featured on Banned Books: Censored &am...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This is Ulysses S. Grant by Owen Wister — a challenged classic of violence and power. Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, this release highlights why certain books have been challenged, restricted, condemned, or tr...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female friends from other Greek cities, she persuades all women of Greece to pledge an oath and refrain from all sexual contact with their husbands and lovers. This is Lysistrata (Remastered) by Aristophanes — a censored cla...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula. This is Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales by Bram Stoker — a dark classic of fear and moral panic. Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, this release highlights why certain books have been challenged, restricted, condemned, or treated as dangerous because of the ideas they...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Frankenstein begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship. This is Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (version 3) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley —...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. This is Dubliners (Version 2) by James Joyce — a suppressed political classic. Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, thi...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting narrative styles. It was published in serial form between 1918-1920 and first published in book form in 1922. This is Ulysses (version 2) by James Joyce — a censored classic of scandal and obscenity. Featured on Ban...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public’s imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. This is Dracula by Bram Stoker — a suppressed political classic. Featured...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lysistrata read by a group of college students. First performed in classical Athens c. This is Lysistrata by Aristophanes — a censored classic of scandal and obscenity. Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, this release highlights why certain books have been challenged, restricted, condemned, or treated as dangerous because of t...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. This is Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley — a suppressed political classic. Featured on Banned Books: Censored & Forbidden Audiobooks, this release highlights why...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flander...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed with a pseudonym: “Monsieur le docteur Ralph”, literally “Mister Doctor Ralph. This is Candide by Voltaire — a dark classic of fear and mo...