by Charles Dickens
Recommended by Upulie Divisekera
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In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fiction’s most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the ‘illustrious, immortal and colossalminded’ Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Refor...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Fiction.
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Upulie Divisekera
“Pickwick Papers is my new favourite book. I’m crying with laughter which is awkward because I’m sitting in a cafe”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 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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