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Daniel Pool
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
A cultural guide to the early 1800s, fascinating in itself, but especially so to those of use who love these authors and others of their time.

H.H. Scullard
From the Gracchi to Nero
A wonderful history of a rich and complicated era, when Rome gained the world and lost its soul.