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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version
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Plato's Republic
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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On Liberty and Other Essays
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Democracy in America
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The Prince and The Discourses
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
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The Federalist Papers
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The Constitution of Liberty
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Aeschylus II: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Proteus
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment In Literary Investigation
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Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
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Political Writings
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The Symposium
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Leviathan
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On Tyranny
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Areopagitica and Other Writings
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
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