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A New Stoicism

by Laurence Becker

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë