Letters to a Young Contrarian

by Christopher Hitchens

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Letters to a Young Contrarian

by Christopher Hitchens

Other books by Christopher Hitchens

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens, Daniel C Dennett, Richard Dawkins & Sam Harris

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

Our most recommended books

War and Peace (book) by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Republic by Plato

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The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
by Christopher Hitchens, Daniel C Dennett, Richard Dawkins & Sam Harris

Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens

War and Peace (book)
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Republic
by Plato