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- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:35:23 -0400 (EDT)
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BOOKS: BANNING AND BANNED BOOKS :
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LITERATURE: AMERICAN :
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UNITED STATES: STATES: MASSACHUSETTS:
A Century Later, a Massachusetts Library
Lifts Its Ban on a Mark Twain Short Story
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A Century Later, a Massachusetts Library
Lifts Its Ban on a Mark Twain Short Story
Just in time for Banned Books Week, the Charlton, Mass., library reversed
its ban on Twain's story "Eve's Diary."
By Molly Driscoll
September 23, 2011
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0923/
A-century-later-a-Massachusetts-library-lifts-its-ban-
on-a-Mark-Twain-short-story
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3vt2v3o
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A short story by Mark Twain titled Eves Diary, which was banned in
Charlton, Mass., a century ago because of nude illustrations, was put back
on the shelves Thursday as part of Banned Books Week.
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The Charlton library trustees banned the book in 1906 after one of them,
Frank Whitefield, disapproved of the illustrations, which depict a nude
Eve exploring Eden.
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After looking long and earnestly at one picture depicting Eve pensively
reclining on a rock, Mr. Wakefield decided to act, read a 1906 article on
the original ban. The article refers to Eves dress as summer costume.
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Richard Whitehead, a new library trustee, recently learned about the ban
when he was reading information about the library and told The New York
Times that the illustrations didnt strike him as particularly indecent.
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Theres nothing outrageous about them, he said. Its kind of a shame that
for what seems to me like very good artwork, a great piece of literature
was banned.
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Twain refused to comment for the 1906 New York Times article but later
wrote in a 1907 letter to a friend, Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, that the ban
seemed ridiculous to him, calling the library trustees the freaks of the
Charlton Library.
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Twain, however, managed to be characteristically humorous about the
matter. But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and
leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age
can get a hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and
doesn't anger me, Twain wrote, signing the letter with his real name,
Samuel Clemens.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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