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Source: Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 49, No. 8 (May, 1996),
pp. 12-18
Published by: American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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Krevelen of the Dutch publishing house Meulenhoff; the Swedish writer Per Wastberg, at
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its activities and organize workshops and inhouse training for those involved in publishing, but its main concern remained to facilitate the publication of worthwhile books and
journals.
works, and also some strange omissions. Inspired and provoked by the perusal of these
lists over the years, the Trustees decided that
in their final year of activity (the Project dis-
banded at the end of 1994) they would respond to the challenge of producing, as a jeu
d'esprit, a consciously arbitrary list of the 100
include:
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und Zeit)
Johan Huizinga: The Waning of the Middle
Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Franz Kafka: The Castle (Das Schloss)
John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of
Employment, Interest, and Money
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tory Analysis
28. Milovan Djilas: The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System
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(Tristes tropiques)
(Zniewolony umysl)
38. Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
39. David Riesman: The Lonely Crowd
Scientific Revolution
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sique)
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Beautiful
82. Tibor Scitovsky: The Joyless Economy
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88. Norberto Bobbio: The Future of Democracy (I1 futuro della democrazia)
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