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(There are) some books that I have enjoyed, and I wish that everyone who loves to read would read these. I am assuming that young people have already read the usual classics. These are books that were classics, but seem to have been forgotten....One is Jean Christophe, by Romain Rolland. The subject is a musician who lived in Paris before World War I. Rolland won the Nobel Prize for it. The second is The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, by Henry Handel Richardson. This is a story set in colonial Australia. The third is The Trees, The Fields, The Town, by Conrad Richter. It is set in the days when Ohio was still a wilderness. The last book is All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. It is an unforgettable personal record of a young man's years in the fighting front of World War I. I could go on, but I think this is a good start. Thank you for giving me the pleasure of remembering some of my favorite books.

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