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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

The Secret Power of Beauty by John Armstrong

And Even Now by Max Beerbohm

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Dart by Alice Oswald

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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

The Secret Power of Beauty
by John Armstrong

And Even Now
by Max Beerbohm

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Laurence Sterne

Dart
by Alice Oswald