Authors and Their Works (1930 - 1964) Flashcards

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As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner

1930

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The Maltese Falcon

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Dashiell Hammett

1930

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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Sigmund Freud

1930

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The Good Earth

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Pearl S. Buck

1931

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Pietr-le-Leton (Peter from Latvia) [Maigret novel]

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Georges Simenon

1931

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Boy

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James Hanley

1931

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Brave New World

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Aldous Huxley

1932

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Voyage au Bout de la Nuit (Journey to the End of the Night)

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1932

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Journey to the East

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Hermann Hesse

1932

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La Condition Humaine (Man’s Fate)

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André Malraux

1933

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

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Gertrude Stein

1933

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Lost Horizon

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James Hilton

1933

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Testament of Youth

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Vera Brittain

1933

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A Glastonbury Romance

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John Cowper Powys

1933

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Tender Is the Night

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

1934

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I, Claudius

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Robert Graves

1934

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Tropic of Cancer

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Henry Miller

1934

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Lust for Life

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Irving Stone

1934

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The Thin Man

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Dashiell Hammett

1934

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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James Hilton

1934

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

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James M. Cain

1934

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Little House on the Prairie

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

1935

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Absalom, Absalom!

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William Faulkner

1936

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Gone with the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell

1936

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Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier | 1936
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck | 1937
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J. R. R. Tolkien | 1937
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Journal d'un Curé de Campagne (Diary of a Country Priest)
Georges Bernanos | 1937
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La Nausée
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1938
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Brighton Rock
Graham Greene | 1938
31
Scoop
Evelyn Waugh | 1938
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Tropic of Capricorn
Henry Miller | 1938
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The Sword in the Stone
T. H. White | 1938
34
Alamut
Vladimir Bartol | 1938
35
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce | 1939
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At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien | 1939
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck | 1939
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler | 1939
39
Lark Rise
Flora Thompson | 1939
40
The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West | 1939
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How Green Was My Valley
Richard Llewellyn | 1939
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Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler | 1940
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The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene | 1940
44
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway | 1940
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers | 1940
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Native Son
Richard Wright | 1940
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Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf | 1941
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Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus)
Albert Camus | 1942
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L'Étranger (The Stranger)
Albert Camus | 1942
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Mythology
Edith Hamilton | 1942
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Five on a Treasure Island (first in The Famous Five series)
Enid Blyton | 1942
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Anti-Semite and Jew
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1943
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Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1943
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand | 1943
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Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot | 1943
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Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game)
Hermann Hesse | 1943
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No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1944
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Our Lady of the Flowers
Jean Genet | 1944
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A Bell for Adano
John Hersey | 1944
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"The Glass Menagerie"
Tennessee Williams | 1944
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Animal Farm
George Orwell | 1945
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A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Bertrand Russell | 1945
63
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh | 1945
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Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson | 1945
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Cannery Row
John Steinbeck | 1945
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The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill | 1946
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Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis | 1946
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Critical Essays
George Orwell | 1946
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank | 1947
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Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann | 1947
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La Peste
Albert Camus | 1947
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams | 1947
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The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene | 1948
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer | 1948
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Still Glides the Stream
Flora Thompson | 1948
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell | 1948-9
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller | 1949
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The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury | 1950
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The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco | 1950
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis | 1950
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger | 1951
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The End of the Affair
Graham Greene | 1951
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar | 1951
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Porius
John Cowper Powys | 1951
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett | 1952
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway | 1952
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White | 1952
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Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor | 1952
89
Casino Royale (First James Bond novel)
Ian Fleming | 1953
90
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow | 1953
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury | 1953
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The Go-Between
L. P. Hartley | 1953
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Battle Cry
Leon Uris | 1953
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The Crucible [Play]
Arthur Miller | 1953
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding | 1954
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The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954
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The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954
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The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley | 1954
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Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis | 1954
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My Left Foot
Christy Brown | 1954
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Diaries of a Dying Man
William Soutar | 1954
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Bonjour tristesse
Françoise Sagan | 1954
103
Horton Hears A Who!
Dr. Seuss | 1954
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The Second World War
Winston Churchill | 1954
105
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo | 1955
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov | 1955
107
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams | 1955
108
Tunnel in the Sky
Robert A. Heinlein | 1955
109
The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien | 1955
110
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious | 1956
111
The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1956
112
Long Day's Journey into Night
Eugene O'Neill | 1956
113
On the Road
Jack Kerouac | 1957
114
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand | 1957
115
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov | 1957
116
Voss
Patrick White | 1957
117
The Hawk in the Rain
Ted Hughes | 1957
118
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak | 1957
119
The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss | 1957
120
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss | 1957
121
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe | 1958
122
Borstal Boy
Brendan Behan | 1958
123
Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 1958
124
Exodus
Leon Uris | 1958
125
Candy
Terry Southern | 1958
126
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac | 1958
127
The Grass
Claude Simon | 1958
128
The Guide
R. K. Narayan | 1958
129
The Birthday Party [Play]
Harold Pinter | 1958
130
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs | 1959
131
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass | 1959
132
Billiards at Half-past Nine
Heinrich Böll | 1959
133
Rhinocéros (Rhinoceros)
Eugène Ionesco | 1959
134
The Last of the Just
André Schwarz-Bart | 1959
135
The Magic Christian
Terry Southern | 1959
136
In the Labyrinth
Alain Robbe-Grillet | 1959
137
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr. | 1959
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer | 1960
139
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee | 1960
140
The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien | 1960
141
Catch-22
Joseph Heller | 1961
142
A House for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul | 1961
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Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates | 1961
144
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark | 1961
145
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein | 1961
146
Solaris
Stanisław Lem | 1961
147
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey | 1962
148
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess | 1962
149
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov | 1962
150
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1962
151
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing | 1962
152
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges | 1962
153
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick | 1962
154
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes | 1962
155
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn | 1962
156
The Time of the Doves
Mercè Rodoreda | 1962
157
V.
Thomas Pynchon | 1963
158
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath | 1963
159
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut | 1963
160
La Planete des Singes (Planet of the Apes)
Pierre Boulle | 1963
161
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Marshall McLuhan | 1964
162
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger | 1964
163
Flowers for Hitler
Leonard Cohen | 1964
164
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl | 1964
165
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby, Jr. | 1964
166
Philadelphia, Here I Come! [Play]
Brian Friel | 1964
167
The Whitsun Weddings
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1964