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  #75

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  236 Points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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  #352

  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  (5 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "As usual, at five o'clock that morning reveille was sounded by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters."

  

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  #323

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #383

  At Swim-Two-Birds

  by Flann O'Brien

  (2 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind my eyes and face assuming a vacant and..."

  

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  #338

  Lord Jim

  by Joseph Conrad

  (2 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "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..."

  

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  #144

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  by Roald Dahl

  (16 Reviews)

  135 Points

  "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket."

  

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  #311

  Angle of Repose

  by Wallace Stegner

  (3 Reviews)

  69 Points

  "Now I believe they will leave me alone."

  

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  #536

  Under the Net

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  17 Points

  "When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong. Finn usually waits for me in bed, or leaning up against the side of the door with his eyes..."

  

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  #344

  A Wizard of Earthsea

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (6 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."

  

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  #533

  Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course

  by Delia Smith

  (1 Review)

  18 Points

  

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