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Charles Lamb: A Bachelors...
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Chang-Rae Lee: Coming Home Again
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Barry Lopez: The Stone Horse
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John McPhee: From The Encircled River
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N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy...
Michel de Montaigne: Of Smells
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Cynthia Ozick: The Seam of the Snail
Alexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and...
Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
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Anna Quindlen: Between the Sexes, A...
Richard Rodriguez: Aria: A Memoir of a...
Scott Russell Sanders: Under the...
Luc Sante: What Secrets Tell
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Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
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