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1) The prophet
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Dive into the poetic and profound wisdom of Kahlil Gibran's timeless masterpiece, "The Prophet." This celebrated collection of poetic essays offers profound insights into the human condition, spirituality, love, and the pursuit of a meaningful existence. "The Prophet" takes the form of a prophet, Almustafa, who imparts his wisdom to the people of the city of Orphalese before he departs. Through a series of poetic and philosophical discourses, Almustafa...
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<p>Over the course of nine months in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker, and accompanied by Gustave de Beaumont, travelled the United States under the pretext of studying the American prison system. Over the course of his travels, Tocqueville also studied American society, religion, politics, and economics, undertaking what would become one of the most comprehensive studies to that time of the practice of democracy in the...
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This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the...
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