Books 1940 to 1954 Flashcards by Darrell Pitt | Brainscape

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The Power and the Glory

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Graham Greene
[England]
1940

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1940
[NPL 1954]

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The Living and the Dead

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Patrick White
[England]
1941
[NPL 1973]

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The Outsider (The Stranger)

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Albert Camus
[Algeria]
1942

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The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
[France]
1943

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Dangling Man

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Saul Bellow
[Canada]
1944
[NPL 1976]

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The Razor’s Edge

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William Somerset Maugham
[France]
1944

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Pippi Longstocking

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Astrid Lindgren
[Sweden]
1945

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Animal Farm

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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1945

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Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh
[England]
1945

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The Tin Flute

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Gabrielle Roy
[Canada]
1945

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Titus Groan

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Mervyn Peake
[China]
1946

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Zorba the Greek

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Nikos Kazantzakis
[Greece]
1946

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The Plague

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Albert Camus
[Algeria]
1947
[NPL 1957]

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Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann
[Germany]
1947

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Cry, the Beloved Country

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Alan Paton
[South Africa]
1948

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1949

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The Heat of the Day

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Elizabeth Bowen
[Ireland]
1949

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Love in a Cold Climate

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Nancy Mitford
[England]
1949

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I, Robot

A

Isaac Asimov
[Russia]
1950

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The Grass is Singing

A

Doris Lessing
[Iran]
1950
[NPL 2007]

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A Town Like Alice

A

Nevile Shute
[England]
1950

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Gormenghast

A

Mervyn Peake
[China]
1950

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The 13 Clocks

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James Thurber
[US]
1950

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The Catcher in the Rye

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J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger
[US]
1951

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Foundation [Trilogy]

A

Isaac Asimov
[Russia]
1951

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Malone Dies

A

Samuel Beckett
[Ireland]
1951

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Day of the Triffids

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John Wyndham
[England]
1951

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The Old Man and the Sea

A

Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1952
[PPL 1953]

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Invisible Man

A

Ralph Ellison
[US]
1952
[NBA 1952]

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

A

James Baldwin
[US]
1953

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Casino Royale

A

Ian Fleming
[England]
1953

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Junkie

A

William Burroughs
[US]
1953

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Lucky Jim

A

Kingsley Amis
[England]
1953
[SMA 1953]

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The Long Good-Bye

A

Raymond Chandler
[US]
1953

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The Go-Between

A

L.P. Hartley
[England]
1953

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Under the Net

A

Iris Murdoch
[Ireland]
1954

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Lord of the Flies

A

William Golding
[England]
1954
[NPL 1983]

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The Sound of Waves

A

Yukio Mishima
[Japan]
1954