Boy is an extraordinary account of male working-class adolescence, in which the brutality and violence suffered by the protagonist includes homosexual rape. After a limited, expensive edition of the complete text had been published came...
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November 1935: Boriswood Limited was in court again (having...
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November 1935
Boriswood Limited
was in court again (having only a year earlier been fined for publication of Boy), this time for publication of a scientific and philosophical study, The Sexual Impulse by Edward Charles
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Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
