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  #35

  War and Peace

  by Leo Tolstoy

  (13 Reviews)

  357 Points

  "Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (Maude/Maude)

  

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  #222

  The Moviegoer

  by Walker Percy

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch."

  

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  #510

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

  by Gertrude Stein

  (3 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "I was born in San Francisco, California."

  

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  #593

  Cry, the Beloved Country

  by Alan Paton

  (2 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills."

  

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  #353

  The Heart of the Matter

  by Graham Greene

  (1 Review)

  61 Points

  "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork.Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the..."

  

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  #201

  Austerlitz

  by W.G. Sebald

  (3 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just..."

  

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  #388

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the..."

  

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  #544

  A Fine Balance

  by Rohinton Mistry

  (3 Reviews)

  15 Points

  "The morning express bloated with passengers slowed to a crawl, then lurched forward suddenly, as though to resume full speed. "

  

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  #219

  Winesburg, Ohio

  by Sherwood Anderson

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the..."

  

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  #56

  The Portrait of a Lady

  by Henry James

  (3 Reviews)

  306 Points

  "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the..."

  

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