Australia Lifts Ban On Over 100 Famous Books
SYDNEY, Thur. (11.30 a.m.)— Customs officials have disclosed that about 100 books, some of which have been on the banned list for 40 years, have now been removed from the list.
In Australia such removals are not publicised and booksellers and dealers say that they are only just discovering that books which they knew were on the banned list had been released 10 years ago. Among the books on which the ban has been lifted are "Droll Tales,” by Balzac; “Moll Flanders,” by Defoe; “Brave New World,” by Aldous Huxley; “Well of Loneliness,” by Rad-
cliffe Hall; and “Farewell to Arms,” by Hemingway. These were released apparently because they were acknowledged as literary classics and thereby entitled to general sale and distribution. Communist officials say there is now no prohibition on the importation or sale of Communist literature.
Cheap edition of Rabelais and Boccaccio are still banned.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1948, Page 3
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