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The Problems of Philosophy
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The Library of Babel
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
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Pericles
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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The Comedy of Errors
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.
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How the Mind Works
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
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