Books 1955 to 1964 Flashcards by Darrell Pitt

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The Quiet American

A

Graham Greene
[England]
1955

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The Tree of Man

A

Patrick White
[England]
1955
[NPL 1973]

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The Last Temptation of Christ

A

Nikos Kazantzakis
[Greece]
1955

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Lolita

A

Vladimir Nabokov
[Russia]
1955

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Patricia Highsmith
[US]
1955

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The Lord of the Rings [Trilogy]

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J.R.R. Tolkien
[South Africa]
1954-55

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Doctor Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak
[Russia]
1957
[NPL 1958 (Declined)]

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On the Road

A

Jack Kerouac
[US]
1957

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The Midwich Cuckoos [Movie: Village of the Damned]

A

John Wyndham
[England]
1957

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Voss

A

Patrick White
[England]
1957
[NPL 1973]

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The Once and Future King

A

T.H. (Terence Hanbury) White
[India]
1958

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The Bell

A

Iris Murdoch
[Ireland]
1958

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Things Fall Apart

A

Chinua Achebe
[Nigeria]
1958

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

A

Truman Capote (Truman Persons)
[US]
1958

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The Tin Drum

A

Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1959
[NPL 1999]

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The Naked Lunch

A

William Burroughs
[US]
1959

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Billy Liar

A

Keith Waterhouse
[England]
1959

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Absolute Beginners

A

Colin Macinnes
[England]
1959

Q

Rabbit, Run

A

John Updike
[US]
1960

Q

To Kill a Mockingbird

A

Harper Lee
[US]
1960
[PPL 1961]

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Catch-22

A

Joseph Heller
[US]
1961

Q

Solaris

A

Stanislaw Lem
[Poland]
1961

Q

Cat and Mouse

A

Gunter Grass
[Poland]
1961
[NPL 1999]

Q

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

A

Muriel Spark
[Scotland]
1961

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Stranger in a Strange Land

A

Robert Heinlein
[US]
1961
[Hugo 1962]

Q

The Golden Notebook

A

Doris Lessing
[Iran]
1962

Q

Pale Fire

A

Vladimir Nabokov
[Russia]
1962

Q

A Clockwork Orange

A

Anthony Burgess
[England]
1962

Q

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

A

Ken Kesey
[US]
1962

Q

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

A

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
[Russia]
1963

Q

The Bell Jar

A

Sylvia Plath (pseudo. Victoria Lucas)
[US]
1963

Q

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

A

John Le Carre
[England]
1963

Q

The Graduate

A

Charles Webb
[US]
1963

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Cat’s Cradle

A

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
[US]
1963

Q

Herzog

A

Saul Bellow
[Canada]
1964
[NBA 1965]

Q

Three Trapped Tigers

A

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
[Cuba]
1964

Q

Sometimes a Great Notion

A

Ken Kesey
[US]
1964

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The Passion According to G.H.

A

Clarice Lispector
[Ukraine]
1964