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  #191

  The Tale of Genji

  by Murasaki Shikibu

  (4 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "In a certain reign (whose can it have been?) someone of no very great rank, among all His Magesty's Consorts and Intimates, enjoyed exceptional favor."

  

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  #225

  Take It or Leave It

  by Raymond Federman

  (1 Review)

  90 Points

  

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  #332

  The Diary of a Nobody

  by George Grossmith

  (3 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "My dear wife Carrie and I have just been a week in our new house, "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway -- a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour."

  

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  #378

  Amers/Oiseaux/Poesie

  by Saint-John Perse

  (1 Review)

  54 Points

  

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  #414

  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  (10 Reviews)

  47 Points

  "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex."

  

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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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  #223

  The Canterbury Tales

  by Geoffrey Chaucer

  (11 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "When the sweet showers of April have pierced/ The drought of March, and pierced it to the root,/ And every vein is bathed in that moisture/ Whose quickening force will engender the flower;/ And..."

  

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  #265

  Oscar and Lucinda

  by Peter Carey

  (2 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea."

  

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  #370

  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  (3 Reviews)

  56 Points

  

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  #426

  The Princesse de Cleves

  by Madame de La Fayette

  (4 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "La magnificence et la galanterie n'ont jamais paru en France avec tant d'éclat que dans les dernières années du règne de Henri second."

  

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