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Ten books that changed the world - The Guardian
Ten books that changed the world - The Guardian

From Euclid’s Elements to Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, and from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex to Shakespeare First Folio … 10 authors choose books ‘not of an age, but for all time’

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...ld?CMP=soc_568
The list:
  1. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  2. The Analects by Confucius
  3. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  4. Elements by Euclid
  5. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
  6. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  7. The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
  8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  9. Comedies, Histories & Tragedies by William Shakespeare
  10. Scripture
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