The Classics shelf
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Love & society
Love under social expectations.
Family & belonging
Kinship, duty and exclusion.
Meaning & inner life
Two perspectives on purpose.
Witness & memory
Lives recorded through diary and memoir.
Solitude & identity
Isolation, longing and the sense of self.
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