Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
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Patriot: A Memoir
The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.
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We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
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"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"
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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 Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
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The Agony of Eros
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
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The History of Jazz
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychologi…
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Speak, Memory
This is an older alternate cover edition for ISBN 0141183225/ 9780141183220. A newer edition may be found here.
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From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of …