Books About Colonialism and Its Legacy

The wound of colonial history — its origins, its violence, and its long unfinished aftermath.

Le Côté de Guermantes by Marcel Proust
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel) by Emma Orczy
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
Astoria by Washington Irving
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The ghost by Arnold Bennett
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 by Daniel Defoe

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