In the market bookstall of the old Scottish town in which I Was
born, copies of Moll Flanders were regularly exposed for sale tied
up with a piece of string: a distinction which they shared with
Boccaccio s Decameron and a work dubiously attributed to Aristotle
an the generation of animals. Whether the string was honestly in-
:ended to preserve the immature reader from corruption, or whether
it was meant to suggest that this was a work of such flaming in-
decency that it must be bought at all costs, it would be hard to say;
~ut it is certainly true that Moll Flanders was long looked upon as
t highly improper book which only the lower orders of society
arould wish to read. As one of Defoe s contemporaries put it:
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