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Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

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Other books by Thomas Mann

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Pro and Contra Wagner
by Thomas Mann

Mario and the Magician and Other Stories
by Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus
by Thomas Mann

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson