Genre :: England (83 books)

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  #482

  The Power and the Glory

  by Graham Greene

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "Mr. Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust."

  

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  #500

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  26 Points

  "'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge."

  

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  #502

  The Pickwick Papers

  by Charles Dickens

  (5 Reviews)

  25 Points

  "The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to..."

  

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  #506

  Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

  by Elizabeth Taylor

  (2 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January."

  

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  #529

  The Razor's Edge

  by W. Somerset Maugham

  (2 Reviews)

  19 Points

  "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it."

  

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  #536

  Under the Net

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong. Finn usually waits for me in bed, or leaning up against the side of the door with his eyes..."

  

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  #540

  The Death of the Heart

  by Elizabeth Bowen

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "That mornining's ice, no more than brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments."

  

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  #553

  The Old Wives' Tale

  by Arnold Bennett

  (2 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Those two girls, Constance and Sopha Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious."

  

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  #572

  Money

  by Martin Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  11 Points

  "As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows."

  

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  #601

  Wise Children

  by Angela Carter

  (4 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "Q. Why is London like Budapest? A. Because it is two cities divided by a river."

  

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