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In Search of Lost Time #2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Sw ...Show more
Peoples and Empires - A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present by Anthony Pagden
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O'Keefe, l ...Show more
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S Wood (Brown University)
Category: Popular History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years."--Joseph ...Show more
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