Genre :: England (83 books)

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  #95

  Under the Volcano

  by Malcolm Lowry

  (5 Reviews)

  199 Points

  "Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."

  

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  #98

  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens

  (8 Reviews)

  189 Points

  "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."

  

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  #103

  Howards End

  by E. M. Forster

  (6 Reviews)

  182 Points

  "One may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister."

  

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  #105

  Vanity Fair

  by William Makepeace Thackeray

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large..."

  

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  #112

  Nostromo

  by Joseph Conrad

  (5 Reviews)

  173 Points

  "In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more..."

  

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  #115

  The Good Soldier

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (6 Reviews)

  168 Points

  "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

  

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  #118

  The Woman in White

  by Wilkie Collins

  (6 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

  

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  #122

  Scoop

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (5 Reviews)

  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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  #123

  A Room with a View

  by E. M. Forster

  (7 Reviews)

  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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  #127

  The Remains of the day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (7 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."

  

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