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Cane

Cane

Jean Toomer

4.0 (2)

#541
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469
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The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

5.0 (1)

Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place, February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the minister of the First Church after the tenets of Boston Unitarianism, as Henry Brooks Adams.

#542
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468
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Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor

4.5 (2)

Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January.

#543
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466
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Sixty Stories

Sixty Stories

Donald Barthelme

4.0 (1)

#545
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465
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#546
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453
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The road from Coorain

The road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

4.0 (3)

The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands.

#548
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452
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Zazie dans le Métro

Zazie dans le Métro

Raymond Queneau

5.0 (1)

Doukipudonktan, se demanda Gabriel excédé. (In English: "Howcanyastinksotho, wondered Gabriel, exasperated.")

#547
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452
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The Interrogation

The Interrogation

J. M. G. Le Clezio

4.0 (1)

#549
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451
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#550
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