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Works that inspire three contemporary authors. How Miguel de Cervantes's early-seventeenth-century Spanish work Don Quixote de la Mancha satirizes novels of chilvalry and offers consolation to readers confronting a complex world. Lessons of individuality and self-determination in John Stuart Mill's 1859 philosophical treatise On Liberty and in Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day. Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino's collection of essays about the transformative power of writing.
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