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  #210

  The Complete Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  95 Points

  "Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick."

  

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  #267

  Appointment in Samarra

  by John O'Hara

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  "Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L. for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his..."

  

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  #605

  The Good Soldier Svejk

  by Jaroslav Hasek

  (2 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "'And so they've killed our Ferdinand', said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and..."

  

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  #226

  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  by Jung Chang

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."

  

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  #517

  Time and Again

  by Jack Finney

  (2 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "In shirt-sleeves, the I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board."

  

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  #261

  Tristes Tropiques

  by Claude Lévi-Strauss

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "I hate travelling and explorers.Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs."

  

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  #330

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  by Oscar Wilde

  (18 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amid the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more..."

  

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  #520

  Double Act

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  (4 Reviews)

  21 Points

  

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  #425

  Always Coming Home

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (2 Reviews)

  44 Points

  "Stone Telling is my last name."

  

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  #552

  The Bostonians

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  

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