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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,977 ratings — published 1962
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,466,899 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,691,544 ratings — published 1945
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,345,854 ratings — published 1952
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,039,911 ratings — published 1925
The Lover (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.70 — 76,986 ratings — published 1984
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,897,441 ratings — published 1937
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.97 — 244,579 ratings — published 1981
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,920,963 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,491,366 ratings — published 1915
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.34 — 275,327 ratings — published 1956
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.85 — 254,612 ratings — published 1958
Speedboat (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,816 ratings — published 1976
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.06 — 130,003 ratings — published 1973
The Lathe of Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.13 — 92,089 ratings — published 1971
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 420,355 ratings — published 1958
The Loser (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,758 ratings — published 1983
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,545,871 ratings — published 1943
Housekeeping (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,704 ratings — published 1980
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.67 — 393,844 ratings — published 2016
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.43 — 567,989 ratings — published 1899
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 23 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.81 — 57,320 ratings — published 1973
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.06 — 374,946 ratings — published 1892
Dept. of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.75 — 63,860 ratings — published 2014
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.08 — 485,187 ratings — published 2021
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.65 — 423,124 ratings — published 2007
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,945,221 ratings — published 1890
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,559 ratings — published 1967
Jakob von Gunten (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,161 ratings — published 1909
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,786 ratings — published 1994
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.59 — 109,904 ratings — published 1966
The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,225 ratings — published 1964
The Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 230,986 ratings — published 1899
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,387,164 ratings — published 1956
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,309 ratings — published 1968
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.46 — 140,517 ratings — published 1911
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.16 — 245,245 ratings — published 1864
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,652,229 ratings — published 1967
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 196,327 ratings — published 2011
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.09 — 953,279 ratings — published 1843
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.77 — 366,554 ratings — published 1925
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 62,512 ratings — published 1961
Bonjour tristesse (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.74 — 76,882 ratings — published 1954
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.68 — 243,613 ratings — published 1984
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.14 — 239,660 ratings — published 1886
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.58 — 280,804 ratings — published 1947
Sleepless Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,440 ratings — published 1979
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,262,959 ratings — published 1954
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 4.09 — 897,487 ratings — published 1922
The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as short-novels)
avg rating 3.69 — 100,075 ratings — published 1966
“Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress; sulphur-colored light ex-ploded through the black windowpane and flashed away in darkness. Miranda waking from a dreamless sleep asked without expecting an answer, “What is happening?” for there was a bustle of voices and footsteps in the corridor, and a sharpness in the air; the far clamour went on, a furious exasperated shrieking like a mob in revolt.
The light came on, and Miss Tanner said in a furry voice, “Hear that? They’re celebrating . It’s the Armistice. The war is over, my dear.” Her hands trembled. She rattled a spoon in a cup, stopped to listen, held the cup out to Miranda. From the ward for old bedridden women down the hall floated a ragged chorus of cracked voices singing, “My country, ’tis of thee…”
Sweet land… oh terrible land of this bitter world where the sound of rejoicing was a clamour of pain, where ragged tuneless old women, sitting up waiting for their evening bowl of cocoa, were singing, “Sweet land of Liberty-”
“Oh, say, can you see?” their hopeless voices were asking next, the hammer strokes of metal tongues drowning them out. “The war is over,” said Miss Tanner, her underlap held firmly, her eyes blurred. Miranda said, “Please open the window, please, I smell death in here.”
― Pale Horse, Pale Rider
The light came on, and Miss Tanner said in a furry voice, “Hear that? They’re celebrating . It’s the Armistice. The war is over, my dear.” Her hands trembled. She rattled a spoon in a cup, stopped to listen, held the cup out to Miranda. From the ward for old bedridden women down the hall floated a ragged chorus of cracked voices singing, “My country, ’tis of thee…”
Sweet land… oh terrible land of this bitter world where the sound of rejoicing was a clamour of pain, where ragged tuneless old women, sitting up waiting for their evening bowl of cocoa, were singing, “Sweet land of Liberty-”
“Oh, say, can you see?” their hopeless voices were asking next, the hammer strokes of metal tongues drowning them out. “The war is over,” said Miss Tanner, her underlap held firmly, her eyes blurred. Miranda said, “Please open the window, please, I smell death in here.”
― Pale Horse, Pale Rider
“Pomimo wszystko zdołała sprawić, że jej szkic o postaci dziekana Swifta stawał się coraz bardziej widoczny, a trzy gwiazdki znów rozbłysły całkiem wyraźnie, choć już nie jasnym blaskiem, lecz znękaniem i krwią, jakby ten człowiek, ten wielki pan Brinsley, przez to tylko, że mówiąc (o swoim szkicu, o sobie oraz, ze śmiechem, o pewnej dziewczynie), wyrywał musze skrzydełka, osnuł jej jasne życie chmurą i na zawsze ją zdezorientował, zniszczył jej skrzydełka na grzbiecie, więc kiedy się od niej odwrócił, pomyślała o wieżach i cywilizacji z przerażeniem, a jarzmo, które wprost z niebios opadło na jej barki, zgniotło ją i poczuła się jak naga nieszczęśnica, która poszukiwała schronienia w cienistym ogrodzie, ale wygnano ją, mówiąc: nie, tu nie ma kryjówek ani motyli, w tym świecie, w tej cywilizacji, w kościołach, parlamentach i mieszkaniach. Ta cywilizacja, powiedziała Lily Everit do siebie, przyjmując od pani Bromley miły komplement na temat swojego wyglądu, zależy ode mnie, a pani Bromley powiedziała później, że Lily Everit wyglądała, "jakby na jej barkach spoczywał ciężar całego świata".”
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