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The Modernity
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The Modernity
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and Southern Europe.
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The Second Sex
Carries a strong pull into books through modernity and migration.
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The Communist Manifesto
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
Carries a strong pull into music through modernity and Southern Europe.
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The Time Machine
Carries a strong pull into essays through modernity and migration.
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The Dispossessed
1970s
A physicist moves between an anarchist moon and a capitalist planet. Utopia interrogated.
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The Second Sex
1940s
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.
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The Makioka Sisters
1940s
Four sisters in prewar Osaka navigate tradition and modernity. Social ritual as narrative architecture.
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The Communist Manifesto
1840s
Workers of the world, unite. The pamphlet that reshaped global politics in 23 pages.
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a 1895 book by H. G. Wells, linked to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in Japan in August 2003, by Shinchosha. In 2009, the English translation by Stephen Snyder was published.