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Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind Alan Jacobs Main edition
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Alan Jacobs
The past isn't cancelled: it's not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regrettable parts.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 10, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9781788162999 |
| Publishers | Profile Books Ltd |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 138 × 205 × 25 mm · 302 g |
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