No one in "The Greater Journey" seems to have noticed Twain's "delightfully immoral" working girls.
He also rejected nominee Vladimir Nabokov, according to Svenska Dagbladet, citing Lolita as an "immoral" work.
It has been said, for example, that Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is an immoral work because it celebrates the passionate surrender to an illicit love and the victory of this love over practical, political, and moral concerns.
I bought Spiers's French-English dictionary, published in 1853, and a battered, soot-smelling first printing of the novel – only affordable because "oeuvre immorale" ("immoral work") had been scrawled with a quill on the flyleaf, and an anti-royalist page torn out.
In other words, he still holds that to speak of a moral work of art would not impinge upon it aesthetically; likewise to speak of an immoral work, for the values of the aesthetic and moral domains are absolutely incommensurable.
Nor is it immoral to work and provide for my family.
In 1815, Cyrus King, a Massachusetts Federalist, opposed the government's acquisition of Thomas Jefferson's library because it included the irreligious, immoral and seditious works of French philosophers, which were written in a language that "many cannot read and most ought not".
As I wrote here on HuffPost when the series ended four years ago, "The problem with torture in the real world as a means of gaining information is not that it is immoral and never works in gaining information; it's that it's immoral and is very erratic.
