List :: The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert

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  #31

  The Red and the Black

  by Stendhal

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 244

  86 points

  "La petite ville de Verrières peut passer pour l'une des plus jolies de la Franche-Comté.The small town of Verrieres may be regarded as one of the prettiest in the Franche-Comte."

  

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  #32

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 74

  244 points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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  #33

  Dead Souls

  by Nikolai Gogol

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 208

  95 points

  "A small, rather smart, well-sprung four-wheeled carriage with a folding top drove through the gates of an inn of the provincial town of N.; it was the sort of carriage bachelors usually drive in:..."

  

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  #34

  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  (13 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 51

  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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  #35

  Buddenbrooks

  by Thomas Mann

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 170

  116 points

  

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  #36

  Old Goriot

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (4 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 264

  80 points

  "Madame Vauquer (nee De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter..."

  

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  #37

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  by James Joyce

  (9 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 30

  389 points

  "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

  

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  #38

  Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Brontë

  (32 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 26

  417 points

  

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  #39

  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  (5 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 93

  201 points

  "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

  

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  #40

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 71

  247 points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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