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  2. Category:1700s books - Wikipedia

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  3. 17th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day). 1664. La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine; 1665. Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine; Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous) Saptapaykar – Alaol (in Bengali) 1666

  4. 1700 in literature - Wikipedia

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    John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell) William Philips – St. Stephen's Green; Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated; Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother; Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April [4] John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous ...

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    العربية; Aragonés; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Bosanski; Brezhoneg; Català; Čeština; Cymraeg

  6. A Collection of Old Ballads - Wikipedia

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    A Collection of Old Ballads is an anonymous book published 1723–1725 in three volumes in London by Roberts and Leach. It was the second major collection of British folksongs to be published, following Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy (published 1719–1720).

  7. Fables, Ancient and Modern - Wikipedia

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    Fables, Ancient and Modern contains translations of the First Book of Homer's Iliad, eight selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, three of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (and an imitation from the Prologue on "The Character of a Good Parson"), the later medieval poem The Flower and the Leaf, which he thought was by Chaucer, and three ...

  8. 1776 (book) - Wikipedia

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    1776 (released in the United Kingdom as 1776: America and Britain at War) [1] is a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005. The work is a companion to McCullough's earlier biography of John Adams, and focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolutionary War.

  9. List of encyclopedias by date - Wikipedia

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    Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC-27 BC) Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder (AD 77-79); highly influential through the Middle Ages, the oldest encyclopedia for which there is an extant copy; De verborum significatione by Sextus Pompeius Festus (2nd century AD) Onomasticon by Julius Pollux (2nd century AD)