I'll second
Zuleika Dobson. One of those books I have heard of but never read.
I'll nominate
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, published 1915, which is on my TBR list. From Goodreads:
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"A Tale of Passion," as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, the novel has many comic moments, and has inspired the work of several distinguished writers, including Graham Greene.
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It's available from the University of Adelaide ebook publications
here.
ETA: It's also in the MR library.