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Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Reviews and Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition)
The Magic Mountain
Love in the Time of Cholera
Concise Atlas of World History
One of my favorite books, insofar as it quickly conveys in broad brushstrokes general information about much of recorded history. It has shortcomings, of course--but a historical atlas of all world history will lack much detail, and will suffer for what its editors elected to omit, as omit they must in a subject so broad.