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  1. Jun 27, 2024 · When Forever Amber was banned by American cities on obscenity grounds, troops immediately wanted to read the book. “If you’ve ever seen books that were completely worn out by reading. . . it was the copies of Forever Amber,” one soldier said.

  2. Jun 29, 2024 · Forever Amber is a breezy historical romance - a romp - packed with implausible incident, but it’s also - thirty years ahead of its time - a bona fide bonkbuster.The book’s heroine, Amber St. Clare, a girl brought up in a humble (and terribly up-tight) Puritan family in the English countryside, runs away to London to seek her fortune among the glamorous royalist elite (huge feathered hats ...

  3. 4 days ago · Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell; October 16, 1923 – April 10, 1965) was an American actress. Darnell progressed from modelling as a child to acting in theatre and film. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s ...

  4. Jul 12, 2024 · 224. Forever... is a 1975 novel by Judy Blume dealing with teenage sexuality. Because of the novel's content it has been the frequent target of censorship and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000 at number seven. [1] [2] [3]

  5. Jun 22, 2024 · Frequently compared to Gone with the Wind, Forever Amber is the other great historical romance, outselling every other American novel of the 1940s--despite being banned in Boston for its sheer sexiness. A book to read and reread, this edition brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.

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  6. Jul 9, 2024 · Frequently compared to Gone with the Wind, Forever Amber is the other great historical romance, outselling every other American novel of the 1940s – despite being banned in Boston for its sheer sexiness. A book to listen to again and again, this edition brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.

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  8. Jun 27, 2024 · “Boston bans Forever amber” Publishers’ Weekly 146 (November 4, 1944): 1838. Mugar Microforms: Microfilm Z 1219 E72 “Boston’s book censorship” Literary Digest 93 (April 2, 1927): 31-2. “Boston Book Censorship in the Twenties” Paul S. Boyer. American Quarterly 1963 15(1): 3-24. BU (Reproduced with additional primary and secondary ...

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