Others: Positive Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
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Thomas Mann
1909 · 604 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveThis epic, sub-titled ‘The Decline of a Family’, was Mann’s first novel, published in 1901. It traces the gradual downfall of a wealthy family over four generations in the city of Lubeck. The novel is widely regarded as a classic portrait of bourgeois society and family life in 19th century Germany.
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Anthony Trollope
1869 · 830 pages · 3 reviews
Others: PositiveWidely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for women's rights.
Ian McEwan
2001 · 371 pages · 6 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveAtonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, Time magazine named Atonement in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.
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J. G. Ballard
1970 · 139 pages · 2 reviews
Others: PositiveFirst published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes, who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition.
Denis Johnson
2006 · 122 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveDenis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss
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Scott Lynch
2001 · 512 pages · 40 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveBest book ever
Loved itporgo's complaint by philip roth the hilarious story of alex portnoy's terrible childhood traumas and tensions and impulses this idiosyncratic character digs truly deep into his psyche and the story of his own sexual awakening it's a truly liberating read and a great narrative statement in a way a truly courageous book
