Sketches from a Hunter's Album
1852 · 403 pages
Turgenev sends a hunter across the provinces with a gun and a dog, and the serfs he meets emerge as individuals. The book did for serfdom what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for slavery.
★ 6.6
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The Cheese and the Worms
1976 · 224 pages
A sixteenth-century Italian miller told the Inquisition that the world formed as cheese forms from milk, and the angels were worms in it. From that file Ginzburg reconstructs an entire peasant mind.
★ 6.8