Bye, Bye Ban: Mark Twain’s ‘Eve’s Diary’ Formally Restored to Library

More than a century ago, Mark Twain’s short story Eve’s Diary was banned from a Massachusetts library due to nude illustrations of biblical Eve. But nowadays, with books like Twilight and Crank being constantly challenged for censorship, the artistic representations of Eve don’t seem so tasteless after all. In celebration of Banned Books Week, the

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Bye, Bye Ban: Mark Twain’s ‘Eve’s Diary’ Formally Restored to Library

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