Banned Books Week: Why these 10 classics got kicked out of class

8. A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway's wartime love story "A Farewell to Arms" was banned in Italy in 1929 because of its painfully accurate account of the Italian retreat from Caporetto, and challenged by the Vernon-Verona-Sherill, N.Y., School District in 1980 as a "sex novel."

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