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What are the best British novels? I'm just starting to read

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What are the best British novels? I'm just starting to read again and want some literature from my own nation. Anything you suggest lads?
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the once and future king
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Ulysses, Middlemarch, Emma, Bleak House, Tom Jones, Great Expectations, Vanity Fair
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>>7975724
Contemporary: The Remains of the Day
Classics: These >>7975737

>Ulysses
Brownshirt pls go
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I suggest the fucking sticky
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Ivanhoe.
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>>7975737
>Ulysses
>British
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READ THE STICKY
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Paradife Loft
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>>7975737
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>>7975760
>>7975779
Ireland has always and will always belong to the British.
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>>7975750
I second remains of the day also anything else by Ishiguro, although most of it is really more Japanese.
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>>7975825
>Ireland has always and will always belong to the British.
WE
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pretty obviously Middlemarch.
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>>7975724
Probably Tale of Two Cities
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>>7975874

quite, although i prefer the modern adaptation, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
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T Shandy, baby.
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Middlemarch is the Great British Novel.

Wuthering Heights. To The Lighthouse. Loads of Dickens.
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>>7975898
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Thanks for the responses lads.
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keats, donne, shakespeare, swift, spenser, ben jonson, bunyan, pope, fielding, defoe, wordsworth, shelley, sterne, blake, elliot, dickens, c. bronte, hardy, tennyson, browning, rossetti, wyndham lewis, wilfred owen, auden, woolf, chesterton, waugh, coward, rushdie, j.h.prynne, tom raworth, roy fisher, ted hughes, larkin
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>>7975979
Keith Ridgeway; Animals or Hawthorne and Child, V underated, like Paul Austre but with more weirdness and less playfulness.
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