List :: The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert

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  #41

  Pride and Prejudice

  by Jane Austen

  (30 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 19

  540 points

  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

  

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  #42

  The Scarlet Letter

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  (19 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 100

  187 points

  "A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the..."

  

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  #43

  Fathers and Sons

  by Ivan Turgenev

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 364

  58 points

  "Well, Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859, by a gentleman of a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the...

  

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  #44

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 112

  173 points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #45

  Beloved

  by Toni Morrison

  (14 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 8

  719 points

  "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."

  

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  #46

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 108

  179 points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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  #47

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 5

  856 points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #48

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 65

  266 points

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

  

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  #49

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 85

  215 points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #50

  Dream of the Red Chamber

  by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 262

  81 points

  "When the Goddess Nugua undertook to repair the Dome of Heaven, she fashioned at the Great Mythical Mountain under the Nonesuch Bluff 36,501 pieces of stone, each 120 feet high and 240 feet around...."

  

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