Four Quartets
Set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period
1940s
The Moving Toyshop
Work of detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English Language and Literature.
The Sheltering Sky
1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles.
Little Fur Family
1946 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams
The Tartar Steppe
Novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress
The Second Sex
1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history
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Last novel by Roberto Bolao
Ficciones
Collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, produced between 1941 and 1956. The English translation of Fictions was published in 1962, the same year as Labyrinths, a separate compilation of Borges’s translated works
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States
The Writing Life
American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction