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  #213

  The Glass Bead Game

  by Hermann Hesse

  (3 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives..."

  

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  #205

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  (3 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music..."

  

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  #198

  Six Characters in Search of an Author

  by Luigi Pirandello

  (4 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "When the audience arrives in the theater, the curtain is raised; and the stage, as normally in the daytime, is without wings or scenery and almost completely dark and empty."

  

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  #212

  Crash

  by J. G. Ballard

  (4 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash."

  

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  #84

  Frankenstein

  by Mary Shelley

  (31 Reviews)

  219 Points

  "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

  

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  #104

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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  #57

  The Trial

  by Franz Kafka

  (10 Reviews)

  304 Points

  "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses..."

  

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  #64

  Brideshead Revisited

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (9 Reviews)

  269 Points

  "When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning."

  

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  #115

  The Good Soldier

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (7 Reviews)

  168 Points

  "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

  

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  #36

  Of Mice and Men

  by John Steinbeck

  (38 Reviews)

  349 Points

  "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

  

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