Genre :: Romance (79 books)

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  #48

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #51

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  (13 Reviews)

  315 Points

  "On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor."

  

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  #54

  Emma

  by Jane Austen

  (17 Reviews)

  310 Points

  "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the..."

  

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  #60

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  292 Points

  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

  

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  #68

  Tom Jones

  by Henry Fielding

  (3 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

  

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  #77

  Sons and Lovers

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (4 Reviews)

  232 Points

  "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

  

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  #78

  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (7 Reviews)

  230 Points

  "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

  

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  #79

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #80

  Birdsong

  by Sebastian Faulks

  (6 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "The boulevard du cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens."

  

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  #91

  The Magic Mountain

  by Thomas Mann

  (6 Reviews)

  203 Points

  "Die Geschichte Hans Castorps, die wir erzählen wollen, - nicht um seinetwillen (denn der Leser wird einen einfachen, wenn auch ansprechenden jungen Mann in ihm kennenlernen), sondern um der..."

  

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