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The Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music

by (ed.) Barry Millington

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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)