Genre: Literary Fiction (94 books)
The best classic books from the Literary Fiction genre.
Oblomov
Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorohovy Street, in one of the big houses that had almost as many inhabitants as a whole country town.
Nightwood
Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein—a Viennese woman of great strength and military beauty, lying upon a canopied bed of a rich spectacular crimson, the valance stamped with the bifurcated wings of the House of Hapsburg, the feather coverlet an envelope of satin on which, in massive and tarnished gold threads, stood the Volkbein arms—gave birth, at the age of forty-five, to an only child, a son, seven days after her physician predicted that she would be taken.
The Recognitions
Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at the critical moment it presumes itself as reality.
Wise Children
Q. Why is London like Budapest? A. Because it is two cities divided by a river.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
I wake ... the touch of that cold object against my penis awakens me.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge.
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs Palfrey first came to the Claremont Hotel on a Sunday afternoon in January.
The Bottle Factory Outing
The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady.
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