3.33 avg rating — 125 ratings

"Staggeringly underrated

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness""

3.83 avg rating — 348,453 ratings

"“No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
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3.87 avg rating — 941,069 ratings

""Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins""

3.94 avg rating — 392,356 ratings

""Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.""