List: 100 Best Novels by Modern Library
Ragtime
In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
The Wings of the Dove
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 irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without the sight of him.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.
A High Wind in Jamaica
One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses, ruined boiling houses; often ruined mansions that were too expensive to maintain.
The Great Gatsby
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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