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Camera Lucida

by Roland Barthes

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Roland Barthes

Sade/Fourier/Loyola by Roland Barthes

Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Sade/Fourier/Loyola
by Roland Barthes

Empire of Signs
by Roland Barthes

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë