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Books 1940 to 1954 Flashcards

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Native Son

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Richard Wright
[US]
1940

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The Tartar Steppe

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Dino Buzzati
[Italy]
1940

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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 Man Who Loved Children

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Christina Stead
[Australia]
1940

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Broad and Alien is the World

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Ciro Alegria
[Peru]
1941

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The Living and the Dead

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Patrick White
[England]
1941
[NPL 1973]

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The Harvesters

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Cesare Pavese
[Italy]
1941

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Conversations in Sicily

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Elio Vittorini
[Italy]
1941

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The Outsider (The Stranger)

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Albert Camus
[Algeria]
1942

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Embers

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Sandor Marai
[Hungary]
1942

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Chess Story

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Stefan Zweig
[Austria]
1942

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The Glass Bead Game

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Hermann Hesse
[Germany]
1943

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Joseph and His Brothers

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Thomas Mann
[Germany]
1943

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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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Transit

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Anna Seghers
[Germany]
1944

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Pippi Longstocking

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Astrid Lindgren
[Sweden]
1945

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Loving

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Henry Green (Henry York)
[England]
1945

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Animal Farm

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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1945

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The Bridge on the Drina

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Ivo Andric
[Bosnia]
1945
[NPL 1961]

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The Bridge on the Drina

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Ivo Andric
[Bosnia]
1945
[NPL 1961]

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Christ Stopped at Eboli

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Carlo Levi
[Italy]
1945

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Arcanum 17
Andre Breton [France] 1945
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh [England] 1945
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Bosnian Chronicle (The Days of the Consuls)
Ivo Andric [Bosnia] 1945
28
The Tin Flute
Gabrielle Roy [Canada] 1945
29
Andrea
Carmen Laforet [Spain] 1945
30
The Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch [Austria] 1945
31
Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake [China] 1946
32
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis [Greece] 1946
33
Back
Henry Green (Henry Yorke) [England] 1946
34
House in the Uplands
Erskine Caldwell [US] 1946
35
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo Calvino [Cuba] 1947
36
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry [England] 1947
37
If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)
Primo Levi [Italy] 1947
38
Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau [France] 1947
39
The Plague
Albert Camus [Algeria] 1947 [NPL 1957]
40
Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann [Germany] 1947
41
Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz [Egypt] 1947 [NPL 1988]
42
Froth on the Daydream
Boris Vian [France] 1947
43
Journey to the Alcarria
Camilo Jose Cela [Spain] 1948 [NPL 1989]
44
Ashes and Diamonds
Jerzy Andrzejewski [Poland] 1948
45
Disobedience
Alberto Moravia [Italy] 1948
46
All About H. Hatterr
G. V. Desani [Kenya] 1948
47
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton [South Africa] 1948
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In the Heart of the Seas
Shmuel Yosef Agnon [Austro-Hungary] 1948 [NPL 1966]
49
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski [Ukraine] 1948
50
Death Sentence
Maurice Blanchot [France] 1948
51
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) [India] 1949
52
The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren [US] 1949
53
Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier [Cuba] 1949
54
The Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Bowen [Ireland] 1949
55
Love in a Cold Climate
Nancy Mitford [England] 1949
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev
Victor Serge [Belgium] 1949
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The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
Simon Vestdijk [Netherlands] 1950
58
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov [Russia] 1950
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The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing [Iran] 1950 [NPL 2007]
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A Town Like Alice
Nevile Shute [England] 1950
61
The Moon and the Bonfires
Cesare Pavese [Italy] 1950
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Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake [China] 1950
63
The 13 Clocks
James Thurber [US] 1950
64
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Octavio Paz [Mexico] 1950 [NPL 1990]
65
The Abbot C
George Bataille [France] 1950
66
The Guiltless
Hermann Broch [Austira] 1950
67
Barabbas
Par Lagerkvist [Sweden] 1950 [NPL 1951]
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The End of the Affair
(Henry) Graham Greene [England] 1951
69
Molloy
Samuel Beckett [Ireland] 1951 [NPL 1969]
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The Rebel
Albert Camus [Algeria] 1951 [NPL 1957]
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger [US] 1951
72
The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier) [France] 1951
73
Foundation [Trilogy]
Isaac Asimov [Russia] 1951
74
Malone Dies
Samuel Beckett [Ireland] 1951
75
Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham [England] 1951
76
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar [Belgium] 1951
77
The Hive
Camilo Jose Cela [Spain] 1951 [NPL 1989]
78
Wise Blood
(Mary) Flannery O'Connor [US] 1952)
79
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway [US] 1952 [PPL 1953]
80
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison [US] 1952 [NBA 1952]
81
The Judge and His Hangman
Friedrich Durrenmatt [Switzerland] 1952
82
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym [England] 1952
83
A Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata [Japan] 1952 [NPL 1968]
84
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin [US] 1953
85
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming [England] 1953
86
Junkie
William Burroughs [US] 1953
87
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis [England] 1953 [SMA 1953]
88
The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier [Switzerland] 1953
89
The Hothouse
Wolfgang Koeppen [Germany] 1953
90
The Long Good-Bye
Raymond Chandler [US] 1953
91
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley [England] 1953
92
The Dark Child
Camara Laye [Guinea] 1953
93
The Day in Spring
Ciril Kosmac [Slovenia] 1954
94
A Ghost at Noon
Alberto Moravia [Italy] 1954
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The Story of O
Pauline Reage [France] 1954
96
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch [Ireland] 1954
97
Lord of the Flies
William Golding [England] 1954 [NPL 1983]
98
The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir [France] 1954
99
Bonjour Tristesse
Francoise Sagan [France] 1954
100
Death in Rome
Wolfgang Koeppen [Germany] 1954
101
The Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima [Japan] 1954
102
The Unknown Soldier
Vaino Linna [Finland] 1954
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I'm Not Stiller
Max Frisch [Switzerland] 1954

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