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List: The Novel 100 by Daniel S. Bert

Cities of Salt

Cities of Salt

Abdelrahman Munif

3.0 (1)

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The Death of Artemio Cruz

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Carlos Fuentes

3.5 (2)

I wake ... the touch of that cold object against my penis awakens me.

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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

4.44 (9)

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope

4.25 (4)

'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

4.0 (5)

The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with which his search among the multifarious documents confided to him has been conducted.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4.0 (4)

I have diligently collected everything I have been able to discover concerning the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you in the knowledge that you will be grateful for it.On 30th October 1772, Legation Secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem in Wetzlar hot and killed himself with a pistol borrowed from J. C. Kestner, a friend of Goethe. (Introduction)

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Candide

Candide

Voltaire

4.13 (8)

There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by Nature with the most agreeable manners.In the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia there lived a youth, endowed by Nature with the most gentle character.

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Oblomov

Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov

4.33 (3)

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.

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Waverley

Waverley

Walter Scott

3.5 (2)

The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent.

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