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Heaven and Hell

by Jón Kalman Stefánson, translated by Philip Roughton

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Jón Kalman Stefánson and Philip Roughton

Land of Love and Ruins by Oddný Eir, translated by Philip Roughton

Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Land of Love and Ruins
by Oddný Eir, translated by Philip Roughton

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë