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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.

1970 63 ed.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe

AT THAT VERY MOMENT, IN THE VERY SORT OF PARK AVEnue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings.....

1987 57 ed.
The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom

by Bernard Cornwell

My name is Uhtred.

2004 29 ed.
A Child's History of England
A Child's History of England

by Charles Dickens

One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two was a glorious year for America.

1800 168 ed.
Salammbô
Salammbô

by Gustave Flaubert

THESE clamourings of the populace did not alarm Hamilcar's daughter.

1863 240 ed.
Grendel
Grendel

by John Gardner

The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.

1971 35 ed.
A Man Lay Dead
A Man Lay Dead

by Ngaio Marsh

Nigel Bathgate, in the language of his own gossip column, was "definitely intrigued" about his week-end at Frantock.

1934 35 ed.
The ballad of the white horse
The ballad of the white horse

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Catholic Way Publishing Staff

Before the gods that made the gods

1911 206 ed.
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Army Life in a Black Regiment

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, —the first slave regiment mustered int...

1870 104 ed.
The Pale Horseman
The Pale Horseman

by Bernard Cornwell

These days I look at twenty-year-olds and think they are pathetically young, scarcely weaned from their mothers' tits, b...

2004 32 ed.
The Wolf and the Dove
The Wolf and the Dove

by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

The clash of battle rang no more.

1974 12 ed.
Beowulf
Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

2000 7 ed.
King Alfred of England
King Alfred of England

by Jacob Abbott

ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy.

1849 69 ed.