by David Mitchell
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Teen, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
From awardwinning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of Adult,hood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteenyearold Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a s...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Teen, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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