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Some books with charismatic narrators
I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics)I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
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Cassandra Mortmain, as her name suggests, does see everything.
Tamburlaine Must DieTamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh
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Christopher Marlowe, one of the most shadowy authors in history, lets us glimpse his mysterious life.
Lolita (Penguin Classics)Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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Humbert Humbert - you shouldn't sympathise with him, but my God, you do.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
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Tristram is the ultimate in charismatic, idiosyncratic and totally loveable narrators.
The Remains of the DayThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Stevens the butler is apparently completely self-effacing, yet reveals so much more of himself than he ever anticipates.
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Salinger, in his creation of Holden Caulfield, gives a voice to the original disaffected teen.
Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Fielding
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The 'author''s omniscient, yet joyfully bitchy, comments punctuate the picaresque action of the novel.
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics)The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Part autobiography, part self-psychoanalysis, the Rousseau of the Confessions holds nothing back from his fascinated reader.
Moll FlandersMoll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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Gloriously amoral, Moll trips pragmatically through her harsh yet vivid world, with the reader hard on her heels.