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The Best Books About Mothers

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On this Mother’s Day let’s revisit the best books about mothers…

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  • 2

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    The Caucasian Chalk Circle
    by Bertolt Brecht & Eric Bentley

  • 3

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    Two Women
    by Alberto Moravia, Ann McGarrell & Angus Davidson

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    Medea and Her Children
    by Ludmila Ulitskaya

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    Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library)
    by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude & John Bayley

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