Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #4

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  925 Points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #9

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  703 Points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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  #14

  To the Lighthouse

  by Virginia Woolf

  (14 Reviews)

  642 Points

  "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

  

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  #33

  Mrs Dalloway

  by Virginia Woolf

  (13 Reviews)

  365 Points

  "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."

  

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  #53

  A Prayer for Owen Meany

  by John Irving

  (8 Reviews)

  311 Points

  "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but..."

  

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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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  #65

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  266 Points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #71

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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  #72

  Finnegans Wake

  by James Joyce

  (4 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

  

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