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| | 1. |  | A Tale of Two Cities
from Vintage
Price: $9.35
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It's almost criminal that this book is so popular. Anyone who is a true admirer of Dickens' work would toss his or her copy in the trash as I did mine. Admittedly, it's one of his shorter works. I believe this is why it's so widely read in schools (and, yes, I can understand a sentimental attachment... more info
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| | 3. |  | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
from Vintage
Price: $19.77
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`Citizens' is a masterful study of the French Revolution I read years ago in hardcover after it was published in 1989. Though lengthy, it examines the most momentous event of the 18C (It wasn't our Revolution for independence from England 1775-83, though I esteem that as a separate subject).more info
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| | 4. |  | Landscape And Memory
from Vintage
Price: $18.15
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Unlike Schama's bloated and unsatisfying Rembrandt's Eyes, Landscape and Memory shows the author to be just as adept an art historian as a social and political historian (as in for instance his acclaimed Citizens and Embarrassment of Riches). Landscape and Memory posits that our ideas of nature are... more info
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| | 5. |  | The Power of Art
from Ecco
Price: $31.50
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It's difficult to decide what's more gorgeous, the full-color reproductions (wonderful, quality paper, by the way) or Simon Schama's prose. I did not see the tv series in its entirety so what's in the book is all new to me. He's a passionate intellectual and his enthusiam is a delight. I'm only at... more info
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