Books 1940 to 1954 Flashcards by Darrell Pitt

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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

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Isaac Asimov
[Russia]
1950

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The Grass is Singing

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Doris Lessing
[Iran]
1950
[NPL 2007]

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A Town Like Alice

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Nevile Shute
[England]
1950

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Gormenghast

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Mervyn Peake
[China]
1950

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The 13 Clocks

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James Thurber
[US]
1950

The Catcher in the Rye

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

Foundation [Trilogy]

Isaac Asimov [Russia] 1951

Malone Dies

Samuel Beckett [Ireland] 1951

Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham [England] 1951

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway [US] 1952 [PPL 1953]

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison [US] 1952 [NBA 1952]

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin [US] 1953

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming [England] 1953

Junkie

William Burroughs [US] 1953

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis [England] 1953 [SMA 1953]

The Long Good-Bye

Raymond Chandler [US] 1953

The Go-Between

L.P. Hartley [England] 1953

Under the Net

Iris Murdoch [Ireland] 1954

Lord of the Flies

William Golding [England] 1954 [NPL 1983]

The Sound of Waves

Yukio Mishima [Japan] 1954