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Creating a Class

by Mitchell Stevens

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville

Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell