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All Quiet on the Western Front

Novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Book by Robert M. Pirsig first published in 1974. It is a work of fictionalized autobiography, and is the first of Pirsig’s texts in which he explores his “Metaphysics of Quality”.
Pirsig received 121 rejections before an editor finally accepted the book for publicationand he did so thinking it would never generate a profit

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself

Company

Legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective

Garry Wills

American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church

Gore Vidal

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner