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    • Candide: The shocking passages
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    • What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?
    • Why Italy banned Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms?
    • Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel
    • The Metamorphosis: The final scene is more disturbing than the first
    • Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves
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    • A Farewell to Arms: All the dirty words you won’t find in the novel
    • The Jihadi Manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones
    • A Wrinkle in Time: Is it blasphemous or too Christian?
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    • The Sorrows of Young Werther: These passages inspired suicide
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    • The Communist Manifesto in 35 historical photos
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    • Why Marx attacked rival socialists as ‘reactionary’ and ‘utopian’?
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Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages

Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages

What makes John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men controversial?

BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN

Posted on October 13, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Some of your dreams won’t come true and that’s OK

Some of your dreams won’t come true and that’s OK

The fine line between inspiring dreams and pointless fantasies

BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN

Posted on August 3, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Of Mice and Men: Loneliness is inevitable for everyone

Loneliness is inevitable for everyone

The path to solitude starts with accepting loneliness

BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN

Posted on June 9, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

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 Madame Bovary
 Candide
 Carrie
 Of Mice and Men
 The Giver
 A Wrinkle in Time
 The Communist Manifesto
 A Farewell to Arms
 The Art of Love
 Story of O
 Mahomet
 The Metamorphosis
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