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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Sigmund Freud

3.0 (2)

#399
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Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee

4.0 (3)

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

#425
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Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

4.5 (6)

My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.

#123
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The Abyss

The Abyss

Marguerite Yourcenar

3.5 (2)

#482
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The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope

4.5 (2)

Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street.

#443
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The Rifles

The Rifles

William Vollmann

4.0 (1)

#580
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#342
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Cranford

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.33 (3)

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women.

#409
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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

4.1 (10)

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

#47
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Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

4.09 (23)

It was a pleasure to burn.

#42
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