Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Banned Mark Twain Book Let Back in Library 105 Years Later

In 1906, the Charlton Public Library of Charlton, Massachusetts banned Mark Twain's "Eve's Diary" and in 2011, they voted it back into the library.  Illustrations of a naked Eve (of famed couple Adam and) were the cause of the banning.  Twain himself took notice of "the freaks of the Charlton Library" as he called them in a 1907 letter.  The un-banning is part of the library's Banned Books Week display that starts next week.  NYTimes

About time.  I mean, wow, who's dragging their feet on this one?  I call conspiracy.
"Hey, Jimmy, we got a book here on the suggestion list."
"Oh, yeah, what is it?"
"Eve's Diary by Mark Twain."
"Twain?  Don't freaking think so.  Man still owes my great-grandma $1."
"I'm going over your head, Jimmy.  It ain't right.  This ain't your library."
"Oh God, I'm a monster, what have I become?  Let it back in."
End Scene