The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831 · 483 pages
Medieval Paris rebuilt around the cathedral, where a deaf bell-ringer loves a dancer the archdeacon also wants. The novel made crumbling Notre-Dame a national cause and saved it from the wreckers.
★ 6.6
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 · 417 pages
Seven generations of one family in Macondo, where insomnia comes as a plague and the rain lasts four years. García Márquez reports the impossible as plain fact.
★ 9.5