His school, Christ's Hospital, had banned books in English about the classics, which were privileged territory, not for the masses.

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Seventy to eighty percent of challenged and banned books are never reported, according to the ALA. More than 11, 000 books have been challenged since 1982.

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It's hard to remember that in the early 1930s libraries banned these books as tawdry and sensationalist distractions from real literature.

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Several other books have been banned in recent years in Chile.

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