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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: England (83 books)

The best classic books from the England genre.

The Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody

George Grossmith

2.67 (3)

My dear wife Carrie and I have just been a week in our new house, "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway -- a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour.

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot

4.0 (2)

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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The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

Samuel Butler

3.67 (3)

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 stick. He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlier than which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was born in 1802.

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The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

4.5 (2)

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 house in Welbeck Street.

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

Where Angels Fear to Tread

E. M. Forster

3.67 (3)

They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off--Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself.

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A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell

3.5 (2)

The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of a camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of subterranean drainpipes.

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Point Counter Point

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

3.33 (3)

'You won't be late?'

#449
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The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, the Sea

Iris Murdoch

3.5 (2)

The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine.

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The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford

4.6 (5)

There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh.

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The Warden

The Warden

Anthony Trollope

3.67 (3)

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester.

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