List :: 100 Best Novels by Modern Library

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  #71

  A High Wind in Jamaica

  by Richard Hughes

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 477

  30 points

  "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..."

  

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  #72

  A House for Mr.Biswas

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (1 Review)

  Overall Rank: 268

  79 points

  "Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James, Port of Spain, was sacked."

  

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  #73

  The Day of the Locust

  by Nathanael West

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 199

  98 points

  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."

  

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  #74

  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 78

  230 points

  "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

  

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  #75

  Scoop

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 122

  156 points

  "While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'."

  

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  #76

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  by Muriel Spark

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 180

  109 points

  "The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes,..."

  

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  #77

  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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  #78

  Kim

  by Rudyard Kipling

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 161

  125 points

  "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

  

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  #79

  A Room with a View

  by E. M. Forster

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 123

  156 points

  "The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a...

  

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  #80

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 64

  269 points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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