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Studies in the History of the Renaissance

by Walter Pater

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Our most recommended books

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Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by Jean Mohr & John Berger

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by Anna Funder

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by Kapka Kassabova

Letters: 1925-1975
by Hannah Arendt & Martin Heidegger

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by Alec Guinness