List :: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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  #51

  Aurélien

  by Louis Aragon

  (0 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 399

  50 points

  "La première fois qu'Aurélien vit Bérénice, il la trouva franchement laide."

  

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  #52

  Soulier De Satin

  by Paul Claudel

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 402

  49 points

  

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  #53

  Six Characters in Search of an Author

  by Luigi Pirandello

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 198

  98 points

  "When the audience arrives in the theater, the curtain is raised; and the stage, as normally in the daytime, is without wings or scenery and almost completely dark and empty."

  

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  #54

  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

  by Bertolt Brecht

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 413

  47 points

  

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  #55

  Friday, or, The Other Island

  by Michel Tournier

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 421

  46 points

  

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  #56

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 133

  143 points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #57

  If This Is a Man and The Truce

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 174

  115 points

  

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  #58

  The Lord of the Rings

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  (36 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 11

  691 points

  "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

  

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  #59

  Les Vrilles de La Vigne

  by Colette

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 433

  42 points

  

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  #60

  Capital of Pain

  by Paul Eluard

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 437

  41 points

  

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