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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".

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[kindkit]

Yeah, I think somebody grabbed a list of "books that have sometimes been banned" off the internet and composed this letter around it. I can't imagine what's in the Commedia that "opposes Catholicism," unless somebody's really het up about the depiction of fourteenth-century popes.

[tree_and_leaf]

That strikes me as the most likely explanation, actually.