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Essays

Michel de Montaigne

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THE WORD OF MOUTH

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Tough choices .. Moby Dick has so much to offer .. Gulliver's Travels ... Tristam Shandy ... Essays by Montaigne.. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .... Probably the collected works of Shaw? Things with dialogue feel freah every time you read them.

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Some links from Project Gutenberg: Essays, by Michel de Montaigne In English (Vol. 1), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3581 In French (Vol. 1), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48529 Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius English translation by George W. Chrystal, 1902 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55317 English translation by George Long, 1957 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15877 Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo In English (Full), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135 In French (Vol. 1), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17489 20000 leagues under the sea, by Jules Vernes In English (slightly abridged), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164 In French (with illustration), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54873

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