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Edition 17 (1935)

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Leopold Hamilton Myers れお まいやーず Winner

A sprawling novel sequence by L. H. Myers set in ancient India. In this reprint, the stories of The Near and the Far, Prince Jali, and Rajah Amar are gathered in one volume.

Power, faith, and private desire cross paths across a very long story.

592 pages
ancient Indiaempiretrilogydesireethics
Raymond Wilson Chambers れいもんど うぃるそん ちぇんばーず Winner

A biography of Thomas More by R. W. Chambers. It traces the life of the thinker and statesman of the Reformation era in a scholarly but readable style.

A biography that builds a person and an era together, carefully.

416 pages
biographyReformationThomas MorehistoryBritain