On Trial for Obscenity

Books dragged before judges for offending public morals — Chopin, Lawrence, Whitman, Joyce — in the long legal war between art and the censor.

When literature went to court

In this collection

• The Attack
• The Spirit of Place
• Love on the Bon-Dieu
• Turkey-Cock (Birds)
• Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast"
• Letter From Town: On A Grey Evening In March
• St Matthew (the Evangelistic Beasts)
• The Prophet
• A White Blossom
• Letter From Town: The Almond Tree
• Loka
• After the Opera
• A Dream
• Voices
• Irony
• The Past-Present
• Man and Bat (Creatures)
• Pomegranate (Fruits)
• Almond Blossom (Flowers)
• New Year's Eve
• Dirge for Two Veterans
• Roses on the Breakfast Table
• Rose of All the World
• Piano
• Two-Fold
• Next Morning
• After the Winter
• Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Novels
• From A College Window
• A Word out of the Sea

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