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Angle of Repose

Angle of Repose

Wallace Stegner

3.67 (3)

Now I believe they will leave me alone.

#410
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1,105
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Confessions

Confessions

Saint Augustine

4.0 (3)

You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit.You are great, O Lord, and very worthy of praise; mighty is your power and your wisdom isimmeasurable.'Vast are you, Lord, and vast should be your praise' - 'vast what you do; what you know beyond assaying.'

#315
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1,790
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The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

Henry James

3.0 (1)

The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber.

#462
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779
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Belle Du Seigneur

Belle Du Seigneur

Albert Cohen

5.0 (1)

#582
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327
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A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute

4.5 (4)

James MacFadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point.

#304
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1,884
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman

4.3 (9)

It was a nice day.

#224
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3,007
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Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

3.43 (7)

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

#287
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2,010
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Leviathan

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

4.0 (3)

Nature (the ary whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.

#319
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1,771
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell

4.0 (1)

#488
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662
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Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

3.0 (1)

I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne.

#343
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1,607
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