Big Books of Summer
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The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 1984 by George Orwell The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Rabbit, Run by John Updike The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
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“its pretty to think so”
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“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright
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