The Old Wives' Tale
By: Arnold Bennett
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in…
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1. The Secret Agent
By: Joseph Conrad
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her… read more
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"Bad world for poor people."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"To the destruction of what is."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."-Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
2. Main Street
By: Sinclair Lewis
3.78
Format: 454 pages, Paperback
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherw… read more
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"So kindly,"-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
"in a world of groceries and sermons"-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
"Whatever she might become she would never be static."-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
"They had something to do. They could escape from themselves."-Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
3. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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5. Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling , None
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and … read more
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6. The Old Wives' Tale
By: Arnold Bennett
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in… read more
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7. Cousin Bette
By: Honoré de Balzac , Francine Prose , Kathleen Raine
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially s… read more
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8. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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9. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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10. The Wings of the Dove
By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more
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11. The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Barsetshire #6)
By: Anthony Trollope , None
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes… read more
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12. The Golden Bowl
By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more
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13. Tono-Bungay
By: H.G. Wells , Edward Mendelson , Patrick Parrinder
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting li… read more
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14. Mountolive (The Alexandria Quartet #3)
By: Lawrence Durrell
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Mountoliveis a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secre… read more
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15. The Way of All Flesh
By: Samuel Butler
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Fleshis regarded b… read more
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16. The History of Mr. Polly
By: H.G. Wells , John Sutherland , Simon James , None
4.50
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as t… read more
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17. Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more
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18. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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19. Dombey and Son
By: Jonathan Lethem , Charles Dickens
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family trigg… read more
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20. Finnegans Wake
By: James Joyce
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Experimental novel by James Joyce. Extracts of the work appeared as Work in Progress from 1928 to 1… read more
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21. Nostromo
By: Joseph Conrad
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South Amer… read more
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