List :: Rival 100 Best Novels by Radcliffe

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  #41

  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 179

  110 points

  "In Poland's deepest autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat, double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel ..."

  

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  #42

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 60

  292 points

  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

  

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  #43

  The Fountainhead

  by Ayn Rand

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 274

  77 points

  "Howard Roark laughed."

  

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  #44

  Finnegans Wake

  by James Joyce

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 72

  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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  #45

  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 370

  56 points

  

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  #46

  Mrs Dalloway

  by Virginia Woolf

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 33

  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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  #47

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  by L. Frank Baum

  (10 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 382

  54 points

  "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife."

  

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  #48

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 145

  135 points

  "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.Náš věk je v podstatě tragický, a tak ho odmítáme tragicky brát."

  

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  #49

  A Clockwork Orange

  by Anthony Burgess

  (20 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 59

  295 points

  "'What's it going to be then, eh?'"

  

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  #50

  The Awakening

  by Kate Chopin

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 230

  89 points

  "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!""

  

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