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Christopher Hitchens is a a visionary.Christopher Hitchens was an English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist, journalist, and columnist.

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Diaries
Diaries

by George Orwell

Girl, 20
Girl, 20

by Kingsley Amis

The Mackerel Plaza
The Mackerel Plaza

by Peter De Vries

The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Money
Money

by Martin Amis

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Writers and Politics
Writers and Politics

by Conor Cruise O'Brien

Regeneration
Regeneration

by Max Allan Collins

Magnificent."
Southern California
Southern California

by Carey McWilliams

The File
The File

by Penn Kimball

Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law

by Erwin Chemerinsky

The Monument
The Monument

by Kanan Makiya

What Is History?
What Is History?

by Edward Hallet Carr

On the Beach
On the Beach

by Nevil Shute

Minty Alley
Minty Alley

by C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins

by C.L.R. James

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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

1984
1984

by George Orwell

Men in Prison
Men in Prison

by Victor Serge

Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

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Power
Power

by Jackie Collins

Theatres of Memory
Theatres of Memory

by Raphael Samuel

The Threatening Storm
The Threatening Storm

by Kenneth M. Pollack

Yellow Dog
Yellow Dog

by Martin Amis

Faggots
Faggots

by Larry Kramer

Shame
Shame

by Salman Rushdie

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The Jaguar Smile
The Jaguar Smile

by Salman Rushdie

Orientalism
Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

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Covering Islam
Covering Islam

by Edward W. Said

Minima Moralia
Minima Moralia

by Theodor Adorno

Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat

by John Steinbeck

Persuasion
Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Watership Down
Watership Down

by Richard Adams

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Microcosm
Microcosm

by Norman Davies

The Cruiser
The Cruiser

by David Poyer

The Broken Compass
The Broken Compass

by Peter Hitchens

Fireflies
Fireflies

by Shiva Naipaul

Principia Mathematica
Principia Mathematica

by Bertrand Russell

The Lesser Evil
The Lesser Evil

by Victor Klemperer

Imperialism at Bay
Imperialism at Bay

by William Roger Louis

Cain
Cain

by Lord Byron

Martyr's Day
Martyr's Day

by Michael Kelly

Antigone
Antigone

by Sophocles

Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis

The Great Terror
The Great Terror

by Robert Conquest

Bend Sinister
Bend Sinister

by Vladimir Nabokov

An Opposing Man
An Opposing Man

by Ernst Fischer

How Democracies Perish
How Democracies Perish

by Jean-Francois Revel

The Donkeys
The Donkeys

by Alan Clark

The Mask of Anarchy
The Mask of Anarchy

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Holidays in Hell
Holidays in Hell

by P. J. O'Rourke

C.L.R. James
C.L.R. James

by Paul Buhle

Greenmantle
Greenmantle

by John Buchan

The Prophet Outcast
The Prophet Outcast

by Isaac Deutscher

Tom Paine
Tom Paine

by John Keane

The Plague
The Plague

by Albert Camus

Collected Poems
Collected Poems

by Robert Conquest

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Selected Poems
Selected Poems

by Rita Dove

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Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda

by George Eliot

Pale Fire
Pale Fire

by Vladimir Nabokov

Middlemarch
Middlemarch

by George Eliot

The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

Christianity
Christianity

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Siege
The Siege

by Michael Stephen Fuchs

The Great Melody
The Great Melody

by Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Long Affair
The Long Affair

by Conor Cruise O'Brien

Burr
Burr

by Gore Vidal

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The Wolf by the Ears
The Wolf by the Ears

by John Chester Miller

The Prophet Armed
The Prophet Armed

by Isaac Deutscher

The Prophet Unarmed
The Prophet Unarmed

by Isaac Deutscher

Sour Sweet
Sour Sweet

by Timothy Mo

Whatever
Whatever

by Michel Houellebecq

Atomised
Atomised

by Michel Houellebecq

Platform
Platform

by Michel Houellebecq

Move Your Shadow
Move Your Shadow

by Joseph Lelyveld

Great Soul
Great Soul

by Joseph Lelyveld

Dreyfus
Dreyfus

by Ruth Harris

A Long Long Way
A Long Long Way

by Sebastian Barry

The Persian Boy
The Persian Boy

by Mary Renault

Bosnia
Bosnia

by Noel Malcolm

Dominion
Dominion

by John Connolly

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Pillar of Fire
Pillar of Fire

by Taylor Branch

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At Canaan's Edge
At Canaan's Edge

by Taylor Branch

Hitler
Hitler

by Ian Kershaw

The Meaning of Hitler
The Meaning of Hitler

by Sebastian Haffner

Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler

by Robert Harris

The End of Faith
The End of Faith

by Sam Harris

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Infidel
Infidel

by Ted Dekker

The Caged Virgin
The Caged Virgin

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Voltaire's Bastards
Voltaire's Bastards

by John Ralston Saul

Shameful Act
Shameful Act

by Taner Akçam

Snow
Snow

by Jessica N Watkins

Armenian Golgotha
Armenian Golgotha

by Grigoris Balakian

Rebel Land
Rebel Land

by Christopher de Bellaigue

Hons and Rebels
Hons and Rebels

by Jessica Mitford

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The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind

by Czeslaw Milosz

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Portrait in Sepia
Portrait in Sepia

by Isabel Allende

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The Silent Angel
The Silent Angel

by Heinrich Böll

Borges
Borges

by Edwin Williamson

Bitter Lemons
Bitter Lemons

by Lawrence Durrell

The Cruel Sea
The Cruel Sea

by Nicholas Monsarrat

The Ship
The Ship

by C. S. Forester

Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune

by Isabel Allende

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Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel

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