Genre :: Historical Fiction (183 books)

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  #169

  Ethan Frome

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  117 Points

  "I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. (Author's Introductory Note)The village lay under two feet of snow,..."

  

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  #170

  Buddenbrooks

  by Thomas Mann

  (3 Reviews)

  116 Points

  

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  #172

  The Killer Angels

  by Michael Shaara

  (5 Reviews)

  115 Points

  "1. THE SPY He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted."

  

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  #173

  Anne of Green Gables

  by L. M. Montgomery

  (12 Reviews)

  115 Points

  "Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the..."

  

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  #175

  The bridge of San Luis Rey

  by Thornton Wilder

  (5 Reviews)

  114 Points

  "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below."

  

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  #180

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  by Muriel Spark

  (5 Reviews)

  109 Points

  "The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes,..."

  

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  #182

  Far from the Madding Crowd

  by Thomas Hardy

  (8 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them,..."

  

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  #183

  Gilead

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (3 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're..."

  

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  #185

  The Wings of the Dove

  by Henry James

  (2 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face postiively pale with the..."

  

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  #187

  The Red Badge of Courage

  by Stephen Crane

  (7 Reviews)

  104 Points

  "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

  

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