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The Rights of Others

by Seyla Benhabib

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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

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Republic
by Plato