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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 779 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,787,661 ratings — published 1813
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 756 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,900,258 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 650 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,867,864 ratings — published 1960
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,318,086 ratings — published 1847
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 598 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,039,913 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 578 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,879,571 ratings — published 1818
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,440,791 ratings — published 1949
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 554 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,870,784 ratings — published 1890
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,885,718 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,534,309 ratings — published 1945
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 477 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,454,314 ratings — published 1868
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,193,148 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 446 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,828,377 ratings — published 1937
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 434 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,817,984 ratings — published 1590
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 417 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,826,846 ratings — published 1953
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,293,652 ratings — published 1811
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,472,472 ratings — published 1897
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 980,665 ratings — published 1815
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 918,151 ratings — published 1850
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,021,369 ratings — published 1844
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 356 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,335,819 ratings — published 1885
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,189,448 ratings — published -700
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 929,390 ratings — published 1878
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 872,630 ratings — published 1861
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 775,150 ratings — published 1817
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,011,259 ratings — published 1859
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,075,944 ratings — published 1866
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,048,352 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,018,055 ratings — published 1623
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,071,998 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,419,006 ratings — published 1915
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 936,705 ratings — published 1843
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 992,468 ratings — published 1939
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,215,583 ratings — published 1963
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 261 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 943,490 ratings — published 1955
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,308,929 ratings — published 1952
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 452,738 ratings — published 1817
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.44 — 635,242 ratings — published 1952
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 842,654 ratings — published 1862
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,393,977 ratings — published 1942
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,723 ratings — published 1595
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,293,577 ratings — published 1911
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,445,944 ratings — published 1937
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 614,894 ratings — published 1851
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,016,960 ratings — published 1876
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,480,598 ratings — published 1969
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 222 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 508,451 ratings — published -800
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 379,200 ratings — published 1814
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 205 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 718,194 ratings — published 1938
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 663,808 ratings — published 1886
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumor that would prove fatal, that he need not concern himself with anything further, since it was this malady that was going to govern his life, to make a plaything of him, until the not-distant end. If indeed, at his period, it often happened that, though without admitting it even to himself, he longed for death, it was in order to escape not so much from the keenness of his sufferings as from the monotony of his struggle.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“rotted down from manhood by their hopeless misery on the isle; wonted to cringe in all things to their lord, himself the worst of slaves; these wretches were now become wholly corrupted to his hands. He used them as creatures of an interior race; in short, he gaffles his four animals, and makes murderers of them; out of cowards fitly manufacturing bravoes.”
― The Encantadas and Other Stories
― The Encantadas and Other Stories
