List :: Books of the Century by Waterstone

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  #81

  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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  #82

  The Bonfire of the Vanities

  by Tom Wolfe

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 376

  55 points

  "And then say what?" (Prologue)At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor ... twelve-foot ceilings ... two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon...

  

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  #83

  Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course

  by Delia Smith

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 533

  18 points

  

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  #84

  An evil cradling

  by Brian Keenan

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 541

  17 points

  

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  #85

  The Rainbow

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 158

  128 points

  "The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire."

  

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  #86

  Down and out in Paris and London

  by George Orwell

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 546

  15 points

  "The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning. A succession of furious, choking yells from the street. Madame Monce, who kept the little hotel opposite mine, had come out on to the pavement to..."

  

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  #87

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 388

  53 points

  "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the..."

  

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  #88

  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 93

  201 points

  "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

  

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  #89

  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 352

  62 points

  "As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters."

  

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  #91

  The Selfish Gene

  by Richard Dawkins

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 577

  10 points

  "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."

  

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