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Oliver Twist 8

Oliver Twist’s eighth birth-day found him a pale, thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference. But nature or inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver’s breast: it had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any eighth birth-day at all…

Charles Dickens  ·  Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress

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Antoine Roquentin

Nausea (La Nausée)

Jean-Paul Sartre

"...it terrified us to think that somebody could have lobster-like thoughts..."

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Chick

Ravelstein

Saul Bellow

"How such decisions are made in childhood is beyond comprehension..."

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Rawdon Crawley

Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Here, as he grew to be about eight years old, his attachments may be said to have ended..."

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Jack

The Cement Garden

Ian McEwan

"Everybody went on..."

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George Bowling

Coming Up For Air

George Orwell

"And it was nine in the morning and I was eight years old, and all round me it was early summer..."

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David Schearl

Call It Sleep

Henry Roth

"And here you're eight and still you haven't told me."