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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Ten top books set in London

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog, Chrissie Gruebel tagged ten top books set in London, including:
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

Low-hanging fog + cobblestone streets + orphans + hilarious.
Read about the other books on the list.

Great Expectations appears on Melissa Albert's list of five interesting fictional characters who would make undesirable roommates, Janice Clark's list of seven top novels about the horrors of adolescence, Amy Wilkinson's list of five books Kate Middleton should have read while waiting to give birth, Kate Clanchy's top ten list of novels that reflect the real qualities of adolescence, Joseph Olshan's list of six favorite books, John Mullan's lists of ten of the best clocks in literature, ten of the best appropriate deaths in literature, ten of the best castles in literature, ten of the best Hamlets, ten of the best card games in literature, and ten best list of fights in fiction. It also made Tony Parsons' list of the top ten troubled males in fiction, David Nicholls' top ten list of literary tear jerkers, and numbers among Kurt Anderson's five most essential books. The novel is #1 on Melissa Katsoulis' list of "twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact."

Read an 1861 review of "Great Expectations".

Also see: Ten of the best books set in London.

--Marshal Zeringue
Posted by Marshal Zeringue at 1:05 PM
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