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Red Harvest

Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

5.0 (3)

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.

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The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

Henry James

3.0 (1)

The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber.

#462
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Böll

3.0 (3)

Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden.

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Baudolino

Baudolino

Umberto Eco

4.0 (1)

Rattisbon Anno Domini mense decembri mclv Cronicle of Baudolino of the fammily of Aulario.

#464
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Thérèse Desqueyroux

Thérèse Desqueyroux

François Mauriac

3.5 (4)

#465
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Time and Again

Time and Again

Jack Finney

4.0 (2)

In shirt-sleeves, the I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board.

#466
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The Wanderer

The Wanderer

Alain-Fournier

5.0 (3)

He appeared at our house on a Sunday in November 189... (Davison translation)

#467
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The Black Sheep

The Black Sheep

Honoré de Balzac

4.0 (2)

In the year 1792 the townsfolk of Issoudun were fortunate enough to have a doctor of the name of Rouget, who had the reputation of being an extremely wily man.

#468
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Snow Country

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

3.25 (4)

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

#469
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746
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JR

JR

William Gaddis

3.5 (2)

#470
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745
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