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100 Must-Reads

DW book expert David Levitz on 'The Confusions of Young Master Törless' by Robert Musil

Can you remember the people that you went to school with - the nice ones as well as the class bullies who enjoyed torturing those who were perceived as weaker? Such bullies loom large in "The Confusions of Young Master Törless" by Robert Musil.

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