List :: The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert

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  #61

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 60

  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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  #62

  The Good Soldier

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (6 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 115

  168 points

  "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

  

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  #63

  The Awakening

  by Kate Chopin

  (7 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 230

  89 points

  "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!""

  

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  #64

  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 24

  469 points

  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

  

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  #65

  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 119

  162 points

  "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

  

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  #66

  Germinal

  by Émile Zola

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 277

  76 points

  "Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d’une obscurité et d’une épaisseur d’encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout..."

  

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  #67

  Call it Sleep

  by Henry Roth

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 354

  60 points

  

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  #68

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 94

  200 points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #69

  Hunger

  by Knut Hamsun

  (3 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 256

  82 points

  "It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set his mark upon him. . .Det var i den tid jeg gikk omkring og sultet i..."

  

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  #70

  Berlin Alexanderplatz

  by Alfred Döblin

  (2 Reviews)

  Overall Rank: 470

  31 points

  "He stood in front of the Tegel Prison gate and was free now."

  

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