RobertKerans

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas
41 readers · Fiction, History, Economics

RobertKerans · Sep 9, 2019

Candide and The Count of Monte Cristo are possibly my two favourite books.

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Candide

Voltaire
10 readers · Fiction, Philosophy

RobertKerans · Sep 9, 2019

Candide and The Count of Monte Cristo are possibly my two favourite books.

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Modern Painters

John Ruskin
1 reader · Art, Nature

RobertKerans · Sep 9, 2019

I constantly use Ruskin's Modern Painters as art reference.

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Traffic

John Ruskin
1 reader · Art, Economics

RobertKerans · Sep 9, 2019

Traffic by Ruskin I reread quite a lot.

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