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  Vanity Fair

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  Leviathan

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  Middlemarch

  "People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"
  
  George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peop…

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  The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

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  Discourses and Selected Writings

  Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were …

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  Dubliners

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