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    • Candide: The shocking passages
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    • What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?
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    • Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel
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    • A Wrinkle in Time: Is it blasphemous or too Christian?
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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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Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves

Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves

Black Code: One of the earliest and most important legal documents on slavery in the West

BOOK: CODE NOIR

Posted on November 15, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Ironically Candide—a satire on optimism—should make you optimistic

Ironically Candide—a satire on optimism—should make you optimistic

Looking back at Candide’s misfortunes 270 years later. How likely are they to happen today?

BOOK: CANDIDE

Posted on November 4, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Candide: The shocking passages

Candide: The shocking passages

Condemned by the French government and the Catholic Church: Read the controversial passages from Voltaire’s Candide (1759)

BOOK: CANDIDE

Posted on December 1, 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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