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    A handful of dust

    A handful of dust

    Evelyn Waugh

    4.25 (4)

    "Was anyone hurt?"

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    The Diary of a Nobody

    The Diary of a Nobody

    George Grossmith

    2.67 (3)

    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.

    #418
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    The Stain

    The Stain

    Rikki Ducornet

    3.0 (1)

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    Snow Country

    Snow Country

    Yasunari Kawabata

    3.25 (4)

    The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

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    The Bone People

    The Bone People

    Keri Hulme

    3.5 (2)

    He walks down the street.

    #451
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    The God of Small Things

    The God of Small Things

    Arundhati Roy

    4.0 (6)

    May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.Maj je v Ajemenemu vroč, morast mesec.

    #231
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    Zazie dans le Métro

    Zazie dans le Métro

    Raymond Queneau

    5.0 (1)

    Doukipudonktan, se demanda Gabriel excédé. (In English: "Howcanyastinksotho, wondered Gabriel, exasperated.")

    #547
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    Lord Jim

    Lord Jim

    Joseph Conrad

    3.5 (2)

    He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner displayed a kind of dogged self-assertion which had nothing aggressive in it. It seemed a necessity, and it was directed apparently as much at himself as at anybody else. He was spotlessly neat, apparelled in immaculate white from shoes to hat, and in the various Eastern ports where he got his living as ship-chandler’s water-clerk he was very popular.

    #265
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    Neuromancer

    Neuromancer

    William Gibson

    3.0 (5)

    The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

    #272
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    3.55 (11)

    Squire Trelawny, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17--, and go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.

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