The French Revolution

by Hippolyte Taine

Taine makes you think that despite its high ideals, the French Revolution was an absolute disaster. Not weekend reading; a very serious book, but beautifully written and well translated.

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The French Revolution

by Hippolyte Taine

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)