Essential Books of a Year

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  People and Ideas

  Prelude to a Flat

  January 1948 By Lucia Clark
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  People and Ideas

  The Discovery and Use of Essentials

  January 1948 By Abbe Ernest Dimnet
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  People and Ideas

  On Being an Only Child

  January 1948 By G.B. Stern
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  People and Ideas

  The Hot Islands

  January 1948
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  People and Ideas

  Portrait of a Mad Lord

  January 1948 By John Moore
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  People and Ideas

  Proust's France

  January 1948 By Elizabeth de Gramont