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Banned Books Week.
The fourth week of September is celebrated as Banned Books Week.
Many famous books were in the banned list in the course of history.
Lady Chattely’s Lover is one such novel.
Mark Twain also had the ignomity of seeing his most famous books banned at one time.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
by Mark Twain.
Long cherished by readers of all ages, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant, and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.
The mighty Mississippi River gives the novel both its colourful backdrop and its narrative shape, as the runaways Huck and Jim – a young rebel against civilization allied with an escaped slave, – drift down it’s length on a flimsy raft.
Their journey, at times hilariously funny, but always deadly serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows, as we watch them travel physically farther from, yet morally closer to, the freedom they both passionately seek.
“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
Aunt Polly – Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is – and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.”
Celebrate Banned Books Week by reading a banned book…
– Joy Kallivayalil.
