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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini

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On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh

Confessions of St Augustine
by St Augustine