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Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 769 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,698,182 ratings — published 1813
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 737 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,797,501 ratings — published 1925
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 640 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,758,362 ratings — published 1960
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 625 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,283,013 ratings — published 1846
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 575 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,986,460 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 545 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,313,994 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,798,647 ratings — published 1818
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,817,467 ratings — published 1890
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,835,331 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 510 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,427,555 ratings — published 1945
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 468 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,417,286 ratings — published 1868
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,147,379 ratings — published 1954
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,781,381 ratings — published 1937
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,787,947 ratings — published 1590
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 412 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,761,662 ratings — published 1953
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,278,124 ratings — published 1811
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,434,118 ratings — published 1897
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 961,901 ratings — published 1815
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.44 — 907,660 ratings — published 1850
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,326,054 ratings — published 1884
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,004,012 ratings — published 1846
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 342 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 916,033 ratings — published 1878
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 761,615 ratings — published 1817
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,169,438 ratings — published -700
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,045,355 ratings — published 1866
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,002,501 ratings — published 1859
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 863,579 ratings — published 1861
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,030,463 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,002,104 ratings — published 1623
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,040,286 ratings — published 1932
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,370,917 ratings — published 1915
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 980,172 ratings — published 1939
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 256 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 929,343 ratings — published 1955
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,180,817 ratings — published 1963
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 902,969 ratings — published 1843
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,283,175 ratings — published 1952
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 444,649 ratings — published 1817
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 835,716 ratings — published 1862
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 572,164 ratings — published 1595
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.43 — 616,124 ratings — published 1952
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,275,646 ratings — published 1911
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,346,536 ratings — published 1942
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,387,192 ratings — published 1937
Mansfield Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 375,130 ratings — published 1814
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,005,250 ratings — published 1876
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,463,486 ratings — published 1969
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.56 — 607,957 ratings — published 1851
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 500,678 ratings — published -800
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 206 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 708,798 ratings — published 1938
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as classic-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 650,141 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
