On the Principles of Nature

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  A Grief Observed

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  On the Incarnation

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  The Aeneid

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  Dark Night of the Soul

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  On the Unity of Christ (Popular Patristics)

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  The Death of Ivan Ilych

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  The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

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  The Communist Manifesto

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  Poetics

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  The Republic

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