Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #232

  The Black Sheep

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "In the year 1792 the townsfolk of Issoudun were fortunate enough to have a doctor of the name of Rouget, who had the reputation of being an extremely wily man."

  

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  #234

  The Way of All Flesh

  by Samuel Butler

  (3 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a..."

  

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  #235

  The Wapshot Chronicle

  by John Cheever

  (2 Reviews)

  88 Points

  "St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town."

  

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  #238

  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

  by Heinrich Böll

  (3 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden."

  

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  #256

  Hunger

  by Knut Hamsun

  (3 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set his mark upon him. . .Det var i den tid jeg gikk omkring og sultet i..."

  

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  #264

  Old Goriot

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (4 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "Madame Vauquer (nee De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter..."

  

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  #265

  Oscar and Lucinda

  by Peter Carey

  (2 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea."

  

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  #267

  Appointment in Samarra

  by John O'Hara

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  "Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L. for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his..."

  

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  #268

  A House for Mr.Biswas

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  "Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James, Port of Spain, was sacked."

  

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  #279

  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

  by Roddy Doyle

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with a stick. It was Missis Quigley's gate; she was always looking out the window but she never did anything."

  

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