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- Nov. 23, 2024
On a recent morning this fall, Aron D’Souza was at home in London expecting a long-anticipated delivery: a vintage set of the “Great Books of the Western World,” a collection with over 50 volumes of philosophy, history and literature published in the 1950s by Encyclopaedia Britannica, including “Faust,” Freud’s “On Narcissism” and “The Hippocratic Oath.