Books the Church Banned: On the Index of Forbidden Books

For four centuries the Catholic Church kept an official list of forbidden reading. These public-domain authors — Machiavelli, Hugo, Dumas, Darwin — all made the Index.

In this collection

• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume VI
• Quotes and Images from Celebrated Crimes
• Taking The Bastile
• Joan of Naples
• Balsamo, The Magician
• Nisida
• The Voyage of the Beagle
• The Complete English Tradesman
• The Corsican Brothers
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume I
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume IX
• And What if the Pretender should Come?
• A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World
• The Regent's Daughter
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
• A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
• La Constantin
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume III
• The Marquise de Ganges
• My Memoirs Vol. I 1802 a 1821
• Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent
• Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
• The Consolidator
• The War of Women
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