Genre :: England (83 books)

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  #234

  The Way of All Flesh

  by Samuel Butler

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a..."

  

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  #243

  The Code of the Woosters

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  (5 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves."

  

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  #251

  The Magus

  by John Fowles

  (4 Reviews)

  83 Points

  "I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that..."

  

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  #258

  A Tale of Two Cities

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  82 Points

  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of..."

  

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  #278

  The Moonstone

  by Wilkie Collins

  (3 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: 'Now I saw, though too late, The Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and..."

  

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  #285

  The Way We Live Now

  by Anthony Trollope

  (2 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own..."

  

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  #288

  Cranford

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women."

  

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  #294

  Daniel Deronda

  by George Eliot

  (2 Reviews)

  73 Points

  "Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?"

  

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  #302

  Cider with Rosie

  by Laurie Lee

  (3 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."

  

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  #309

  Cold Comfort Farm

  by Stella Gibbons

  (5 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "The education bestowed upon Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of influenza or..."

  

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