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Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 423 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.77 — 372,347 ratings — published 1925
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To the Lighthouse To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.81 — 224,445 ratings — published 1927
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Ulysses Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.76 — 141,225 ratings — published 1922
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.65 — 167,786 ratings — published 1916
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The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,111,420 ratings — published 1925
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Dubliners Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.83 — 184,435 ratings — published 1914
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The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.86 — 200,770 ratings — published 1929
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Orlando Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.87 — 121,841 ratings — published 1928
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As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.72 — 193,300 ratings — published 1930
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The Waves The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.14 — 56,404 ratings — published 1931
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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,100 ratings — published 1899
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The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.78 — 508,759 ratings — published 1926
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The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,532,812 ratings — published 1915
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The Trial The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.93 — 417,954 ratings — published 1925
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The Waste Land The Waste Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,795 ratings — published 1922
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.16 — 71,085 ratings — published 1913
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A Room of One’s Own A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.22 — 278,062 ratings — published 1929
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Nightwood Nightwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.60 — 15,296 ratings — published 1936
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Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,999 ratings — published 1951
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The Waste Land and Other Poems The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,181 ratings — published 1922
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A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,373 ratings — published 1929
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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,365,998 ratings — published 1952
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Absalom, Absalom! Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,415 ratings — published 1936
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The Castle The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.91 — 79,551 ratings — published 1926
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Light in August Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,169 ratings — published 1932
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Jacob's Room Jacob's Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.52 — 14,064 ratings — published 1922
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The Magic Mountain The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,286 ratings — published 1924
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The Stranger The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,508,754 ratings — published 1942
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For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.99 — 326,102 ratings — published 1940
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Sons and Lovers Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.64 — 56,580 ratings — published 1913
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Finnegans Wake Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,867 ratings — published 1939
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.66 — 29,495 ratings — published 1915
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Hunger Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,997 ratings — published 1890
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Howards End Howards End (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.96 — 96,462 ratings — published 1910
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Tender Is the Night Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.77 — 153,346 ratings — published 1934
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The Voyage Out The Voyage Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,594 ratings — published 1915
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.50 — 141,636 ratings — published 1928
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A Passage to India A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.68 — 87,514 ratings — published 1924
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.39 — 18,757 ratings — published 1919
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Steppenwolf Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.13 — 224,953 ratings — published 1927
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,719,741 ratings — published 1949
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Good Morning, Midnight Good Morning, Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,736 ratings — published 1939
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Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,934,245 ratings — published 1937
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Lolita Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,915 ratings — published 1955
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A Moveable Feast A Moveable Feast (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.01 — 172,205 ratings — published 1964
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The Book of Disquiet The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.39 — 39,739 ratings — published 1982
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Between the Acts Between the Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.60 — 9,284 ratings — published 1941
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A Room with a View A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.89 — 207,707 ratings — published 1908
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Women in Love Women in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.66 — 33,854 ratings — published 1920
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Cane Cane (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,786 ratings — published 1923
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Michel de Certeau
“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Concept-city functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity.”
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based on the rejec- tion of the theocentric view of reality—that is, removing God from the center of reality and putting man in His place. In a sense, it is a substitu- tion of the kingdom of man for the Kingdom of God, therefore paying special attention to the individual and individualism and to the different powers of the individual human being such as reason and the senses. Therefore, its method of cognition, its epistemology, is based essentially upon either rationalism or empiricism, and it makes human values, the values of terrestrial man, the supreme set of values and the criteria for all things.”
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, در جست‌وجوی امر قدسی

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