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  #418

  Watchmen

  by Alan Moore

  (10 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

  

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  #232

  The Black Sheep

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "In the year 1792 the townsfolk of Issoudun were fortunate enough to have a doctor of the name of Rouget, who had the reputation of being an extremely wily man."

  

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  #384

  Contempt

  by Alberto Moravia

  (1 Review)

  53 Points

  "During the first two years of our married life my relations with my wife were, I can now assert, perfect."

  

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  #105

  Vanity Fair

  by William Makepeace Thackeray

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large..."

  

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  #463

  The Franchiser

  by Stanley Elkin

  (1 Review)

  33 Points

  

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  #249

  Alcools

  by Guillaume Apollinaire

  (1 Review)

  84 Points

  

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  #241

  Stranger in a Strange Land

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  (7 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith."

  

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  #495

  Waiting for the Mahatma

  by R. K. Narayan

  (2 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "His mother who died delivering him, and his father who was killed in Mesopotamia, might have been figures in a legend as far as Sriram was concerned."

  

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  #317

  Three Men in a Boat

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  (7 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency."

  

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  #127

  The Remains of the day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (8 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days."

  

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