A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
1972 semi-autobiographical novella by the Austrian writer Peter Handke
1970s
The Civil War: A Narrative
Three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote
The Day of the Jackal
Thriller novel by English author Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America
A Time of Gifts
Travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth
Non-fiction food book by Roy Andries De GrootPublished in 1973, the book is about the time de Groot spent at an inn called L’Auberge de l’Atre Fleuri in St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Savoy region of France, and about the good meals he ate there
The Selfish Gene
1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams’s Adaptation and Natural Selection . Dawkins uses the term “selfish gene” as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution , popularising ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others
The Power Broker
1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown that covers the history of Native Americans in the American West in the late nineteenth century
Invisible Cities
Novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino
Akenfield
Film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe . Blythe himself has a cameo role as the vicar and all other parts are played by real-life villagers who improvised their own dialogue