Book History
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Coronavirus: Why Daniel Defoe’s book about the 1665 plague is relevant today
Surprisingly, as people learnt later, Defoe had made the whole thing up.
David Roberts, The Conversation
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Glimpses of 'Aristotle’s Masterpiece': A 17th-century guide on what to expect when you're expecting
The book, neither by Aristotle nor a masterpiece, offers peculiar and eccentric advise on sex, pregnancy and childbirth
Maddy Smith
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Can this video quest for Soviet books from our childhood bring back the magic?
Three Mumbai filmmakers go back into their past for a documentary on the books they loved.
Scroll Staff
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