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[tree_and_leaf]

While I'd quite like to believe this (who doesn't love a story about kids fighting for the right to read what they want?) I find it hard to believe that a Roman Catholic school* would ban some of these. I mean, admittedly you might censor Paradise Lost, because its Christology is certainly very dubious, but getting upset about works on human evolution is more of a fundamentalist Protestant thing, and I can't imagine why any school that didn't have a Stalinist axe to grind would want to ban Animal Farm.

But.... Dante? I'm not buying it without considerably more substantiation.



* The OP doesn't specify what kind of 'strict private school' they attend, but states that "most of the books contained information that opposed Catholicism".

Comments

[liseuse]

I wouldn't be surprised, to be honest, based on what I've heard about Catholic schools in the US (and, well, schools in the US). Also, my Catholic schools tried reasonably hard to encourage us away from certain reading materials. And I still chuckle when I remember them telling us we were Not Allowed to go and see Dogma. Which, of course, everyone then went to see.

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, I could readily believe an American Catholic school taking a tough line on books you should and shouldn't be reading. But I don't believe this selection of titles.

[legionseagle]

Exactly. I mean, Connecticut Yankee???? I was pretty unusual in having read that at a Girls Grammar school thirty five years ago, and it hasn't got more accessible in the interim.

ETA Save for the fact that, like many others on that list, it's a Project Gutenberg title.