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  Days of Reading

  Proust Marcel (FR)

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  In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we ta...

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  Before I Knew You

  Brookfield Amanda (EN)

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  Would you swap houses with a family of strangers? The price you pay might be greater than you think ...

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  Sold as a Slave

  Equiano Olaudah (EN)

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  In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, ...

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  Significance of the Frontier in American History

  Turner Frederick Jackson (EN)

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  This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nati...

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  To the Holy Shrines

  Burton Richard (EN)

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  Disguised as a Persian dervish, Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) set out to become the first Christian...

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  Parlour Games for Modern Families

  Jones Myfanwy (EN)

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  'Remember when you played cards or knucklebones or noughts and crosses? Or what about charades, murd...

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  Just Above My Head

  Baldwin James

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  James Baldwin first wrote about homosexuality in his famous early novel, Giovanni s Room. Here he br...

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  Some Anatomies of Melancholy

  Burton Robert (EN)

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  Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebratio...

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  Can-Cans, Cats and Cities of Ash

  Twain Mark (EN)

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  One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (183...

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  Something Childish But Very Natural

  Mansfield Katherine (EN)

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  Henry is naive and has never experienced love. When he meets golden-haired Edna in a train carriage,...

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  Invisible Hand

  Smith Adam (EN)

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  Adam Smith s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that ...

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  Future of an Illusion

  Freud Sigmund (EN)

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  This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role ...

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  Christmas Books

  Dickens Charles (EN)

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  Dickens s story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a...

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  Congo and the Cameroons

  Kingsley Mary (EN)

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  Contemptuous of Europe's 'civilising mission' in Africa, Mary Kingsley's (1862-1900) extraordinary j...

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  Most Dangerous Place

  Gul Imtiaz (EN)

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  The tribal region located on the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the centre of terroris...

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  True Confessions of Adrian Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend

  Townsend Sue (EN)

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  True Confessions of Adrian Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend is the third book ...

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  Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart

  Keating H. R. F. (EN)

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  Some crooks have tried to snatch the plump son of a business tycoon, and have accidentally made off ...

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  War with Hannibal

  Livy Titus (EN)

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  In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between R...

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  Food Rules

  Pollan Michael (EN)

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  Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers t...

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  Parting Shots

  Parris Matthew (EN)

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  When leaving a foreign posting, Britain's ambassadors were encouraged to write a valedictory despatc...