Banned Books Awareness: “Tarzan”

April 6, 2014 R. Wolf Baldassarro 3

Part of growing up in the 20th century was reading the adventures of Tarzan of the Apes, through a series of 24 books by Edgar Rice Burroughs; the novels are considered classic literature by adults, as well. Written between 1912 and 1965, Tarzan has been adapted numerous times for radio, […]

Banned Books Awareness: “Lord of the Flies”

November 10, 2013 R. Wolf Baldassarro 6

William Golding’s debut novel follows a group of British schoolboys whose plane crashes on the shore of an uninhabited island. As well intentioned their attempt to cope with the situation and govern themselves may have been they instead regress to primal instincts and the mentality of humanity’s earliest hunter societies. […]