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In 1920, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice filed a complaint of obscenity over a serialized installment of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” in The Little Review, which led to a state court declaring the work obscene and preventing the author from finding an American publisher. In what year was the American ban on “Ulysses” finally lifted after it was challenged by Random House?
- A 1922
- B 1929
- C 1933
- D 1939
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From an article in the Dec. 3, 1933, edition of The Times:
James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” a novel which has been banned from the United States by customs censors on the ground that it might cause American readers to harbor “impure and lustful thoughts,” found a champion yesterday in the United States District Court.
