Genre :: England (83 books)

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  #54

  Emma

  by Jane Austen

  (17 Reviews)

  310 Points

  "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the..."

  

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  #55

  David Copperfield

  by Charles Dickens

  (14 Reviews)

  309 Points

  "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I..."

  

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  #64

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (9 Reviews)

  269 Points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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  #65

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  266 Points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #68

  Tom Jones

  by Henry Fielding

  (3 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

  

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  #74

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  244 Points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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  #77

  Sons and Lovers

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  232 Points

  "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

  

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  #79

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #85

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #88

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  (10 Reviews)

  211 Points

  

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