Genre :: Literary Fiction (94 books)

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  #522

  The Bottle Factory Outing

  by Beryl Bainbridge

  (2 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady."

  

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  #528

  Omensetter's Luck

  by William H. Gass

  (1 Review)

  19 Points

  

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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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  #531

  Oblomov

  by Ivan Goncharov

  (3 Reviews)

  19 Points

  "Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorohovy Street, in one of the big houses that had almost as many inhabitants as a whole country town."

  

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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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  #550

  Nine Stories

  by J. D. Salinger

  (4 Reviews)

  15 Points

  "There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her..."

  

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  #552

  The Bostonians

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  

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  #556

  The Betrothed

  by Alessandro Manzoni

  (3 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Quel ramo del lago di Como, che volge a mezzogiorno, tra due catene non interrotte di monti, tutto a seni e golfi, a seconda dello sporgere e del rientrare di quelli, vien quasi a un tratto, a..."

  

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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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  #600

  The Beautiful and Damned

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (5 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him."

  

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