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  #482

  The Power and the Glory

  by Graham Greene

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "Mr. Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust."

  

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  #72

  Finnegans Wake

  by James Joyce

  (4 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

  

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  #76

  The Ambassadors

  by Henry James

  (4 Reviews)

  235 Points

  "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."

  

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  #449

  Writing Degree Zero

  by Roland Barthes

  (1 Review)

  38 Points

  

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  #374

  All Quiet on the Western Front

  by Erich Maria Remarque

  (10 Reviews)

  55 Points

  "We are at rest five miles behind the front."

  

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  #526

  The Twits

  by Roald Dahl

  (9 Reviews)

  20 Points

  "What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays."

  

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  #589

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  by Milan Kundera

  (4 Reviews)

  8 Points

  "In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square."

  

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  #2

  The Grapes of Wrath

  by John Steinbeck

  (35 Reviews)

  963 Points

  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

  

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  #542

  Our Lady of the Flowers

  by Jean Genet

  (3 Reviews)

  16 Points

  

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  #71

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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