Genre :: England (83 books)

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  #366

  Point Counter Point

  by Aldous Huxley

  (2 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "'You won't be late?'"

  

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  #393

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  by Agatha Christie

  (4 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September—a Thursday."

  

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  #409

  High Fidelity

  by Nick Hornby

  (3 Reviews)

  48 Points

  "My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order: 1) Alison Ashworth 2) Penny Hardwick 3) Jackie Allen 4) Charlie Nicholson 5) Sarah Kendrew."

  

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  #414

  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  (10 Reviews)

  47 Points

  "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex."

  

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  #423

  Parade's End

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (2 Reviews)

  44 Points

  

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  #424

  The Pursuit of Love

  by Nancy Mitford

  (5 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh."

  

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  #430

  London Fields

  by Martin Amis

  (1 Review)

  42 Points

  "This is a true story but I can't believe it's really happening."

  

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  #435

  Zuleika Dobson

  by Max Beerbohm

  (2 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and..."

  

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  #458

  Of Human Bondage

  by W. Somerset Maugham

  (1 Review)

  35 Points

  "The day broke grey and dull."

  

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  #475

  Oliver Twist

  by Charles Dickens

  (9 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to..."

  

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