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Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Maturin

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Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Republic
by Plato