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Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings

by Matthew Arnold

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Our most recommended books

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by Jean Mohr & John Berger

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The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund

Unfinished Business: A Memoir by John Houseman

Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey

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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by Jean Mohr & John Berger

Solzhenitsyn
by Francis Barker

The Beauty and the Sorrow
by Peter Englund

Unfinished Business: A Memoir
by John Houseman