Genre :: England (83 books)

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  #313

  The Golden Bowl

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  69 Points

  "The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have..."

  

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  #324

  The Sea, the Sea

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine."

  

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  #325

  The French Lieutenant's Woman

  by John Fowles

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched south-western leg - and a person of curiosity could at once..."

  

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  #326

  The Pillars of The Earth

  by Ken Follett

  (10 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The small boys came early to the hanging. (Preface)In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house. (Chapter 1) "

  

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  #328

  Swallows and Amazons

  by Arthur Ransome

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for..."

  

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  #331

  A handful of dust

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (3 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "Was anyone hurt?"

  

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  #332

  The Diary of a Nobody

  by George Grossmith

  (3 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "My dear wife Carrie and I have just been a week in our new house, "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway -- a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour."

  

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  #338

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think..."

  

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  #345

  The Warden

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester."

  

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  #353

  The Heart of the Matter

  by Graham Greene

  (1 Review)

  61 Points

  "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the..."

  

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