Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #41

  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  (21 Reviews)

  337 Points

  "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be..."

  

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  #42

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  335 Points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #46

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (12 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

  

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  #48

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #51

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  (13 Reviews)

  315 Points

  "On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor."

  

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  #52

  Their Eyes Were Watching God

  by Zora Neale Hurston

  (10 Reviews)

  312 Points

  "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

  

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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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  #56

  The Portrait of a Lady

  by Henry James

  (3 Reviews)

  306 Points

  "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the..."

  

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  #60

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  292 Points

  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

  

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