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Kane and Abel

Kane and Abel

Jeffrey Archer

3.67 (3)

April 18, 1906 - Slonim, Poland - She only stopped screaming when she died.

#331
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Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger

3.0 (3)

Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend - the weekend of the Yale game.The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.

#208
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Bertolt Brecht

4.0 (1)

#550
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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

3.5 (10)

The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

#105
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The Faraway Tree Stories

The Faraway Tree Stories

Enid Blyton

4.67 (3)

#325
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1,746
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Petersburg

Petersburg

Andrei Bely

3.0 (2)

Your Excellencies, Your Lordships, Your Honors, Citizens!

#570
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370
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City of Glass

City of Glass

Paul Auster

3.0 (1)

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

#419
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Watchmen

Watchmen

Alan Moore

4.7 (10)

Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: <br>Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

#197
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The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

3.6 (5)

"To be born again " sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

#320
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Libra

Libra

Don DeLillo

4.5 (2)

#512
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566
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