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Currently reading Mikhail Bulgakov's A Young Doctor's Notebook and loving it. I was wondering if anyone has any good suggestions for other short historical writings, the kind of thing you can tear through in a few days to learn about the day-to-day life of some other era of history while plugging away at larger books. Any time period/topic is good. Thanks!

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Read some short autobiographies of people who sound interesting to you. If you want a few recommendations:

>Andrew Carnegie
>Benjamin Franklin
>Nikola Tesla

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Modern Library Chronicles

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Library-Chronicles-Series-33-book-series/dp/B08GN674TM

>> No.22956177

>>22955427
>>22955645
thanks a bunch!

>> No.22956201

>>22955338
wait that guy was a real doctor,is his book about a doctor getting addicted to morphine biographical too ???

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>> No.22957179

>>22956201
Yeah lol. Some lose details (exact year, name of the hospital, etc) are changed for the sake of anonymity but yes he was a real doctor who did all those things, including getting addicted to Morphine. Fascinating guy.