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Mountain Gloom And Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

by Marjorie Hope Nicolson

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War and Peace (book)
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright