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THE PLEASURE OF CHOOSING
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Familiar names. New discoveries.
Austen, Dickens and Poe share the shelves. Find the next classic that stays with you.
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Beyond the familiar
Travel further with Melville, Collins and Thackeray. Two hundred doors into other worlds.
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THE LIBRARY
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WHAT WE BELIEVE
Automate the work.
Never the curiosity.
When machines take over the work, what will we do with our time? We can learn. Understand what came before us. Imagine what lies ahead.
The Black Salon is an invitation to make reading a habit. One book after another. One idea at a time.
The future belongs to readers, too.READ BEYOND THE FAMILIAR
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Classics touched by censorship
FRANCE · 1857
The Flowers of Evil
Six poems were condemned and removed from the collection in 1857. The censorship ruling was not lifted until 1949.
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FRANCE · 1664
Tartuffe
The first version was banned after its performance in 1664. A revised version was finally staged in 1669.
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APOCRYPHAL TEXT
Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)
An ancient collection of apocalyptic writings, preserved in full in an Ethiopic version.
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APOCRYPHAL TEXT
Gospel of Thomas
A collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, known notably from the Nag Hammadi manuscripts.
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