Literature of the 1940s

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Works of literature from the 1940s.

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• Agent of Vega. Series started in 1949.
• "Alice and the Allergy"
• All the King's Men
• "—And He Built a Crooked House—"
• Animal Farm
• Author! Author! (1964)
• Bartholomew and the Oobleck
• Bedknob and Broomstick
• Bend Sinister
• The Best Science Fiction: 1949
• Betsy-Tacy
• Beyond This Horizon
• The Big Wave
• The Black Stallion
• Blind Alley
• The Body in the Library
• Bony series continued through the decade.
• Brat Farrar
• Brideshead Revisited
• The Bridge on the Drina
• By His Bootstraps
• The Callistan Menace
• Cannery Row
• Captain Future Series started in 1940.
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Catcher in the Rye^note Serialized from 1946-1948, published as a book in 1951
• Catch That Rabbit
• Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Belles on Their Toes
• Cherry Ames Series started in 1943.
• The Circus Series. Series ended in 1942.
• Comrade Death
• Confessions of a Mask
• The Corinthian
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Curious George The series started in 1941.
• Darkness at Noon
• Darker Than You Think
• Death Comes as the End
• Doctor Faustus
• Dragon's Teeth
• The Dwarf
• Earth Abides
• The Egyptian
• The Emigrants
• The Encyclopedists
• Escape!
• Evidence
• Evil Under the Sun
• Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Series started in 1940.
• The Famous Five. The series started in 1942.
• Farewell, My Lovely
• Farmer Giles of Ham
• Five Find-Outers
• Five Little Pigs
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Forever Amber
• The Fountainhead
• Friday's Child
• Froth on the Daydream
• "The General (Foundation)"
• Gervase Fen. Series that began in 1944.
• Gimlet
• The Glass Key
• Goodnight Moon
• Goofus and Gallant
• Gormenghast
• The Great Divorce
• The Green Hills of Earth
• Green Patches
• Guard of Honor
• Gulf
• Harold Shea. Series started in 1940.
• The Harp in the South
• The Haunting of Toby Jugg
• "The Hazing"
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• The High Window
• History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II
• The Hollow
• Homo Sol
• Horton Hatches the Egg
• The House of Asterion
• The Hundred Dresses
• I Capture the Castle
• If This Goes On—
• If This Is a Man
• "The Imaginary"
• Insupu
• Jill
• Johnny Tremain
• Joy in the Morning
• Judy's Journey
• King of the Wind
• The Labours of Hercules
• The Lady in the Lake
• Laura
• Liar! (1941)
• The Library of Babel
• "Little Lost Robot"
• The Little Grey Men Series. Series started in 1942.
• The Little Prince
• The Little Sister
• The Little White Horse
• "The Living Manikins"
• The Long Ships
• The Lottery and Other Stories
  • "The Lottery"
• Lottie and Lisa
• The Love of the Last Tycoon
• The Loved One
• Magic, Inc.
• Make Way for Ducklings
• The Makioka Sisters
• Malory Towers
• The Man Without Qualities
• The Mating Season
• May Day Eve
• The Mayors
• McElligot's Pool
• Melendy Quartet
• The Merchant Princes
• Methuselah's Children
• Mike Hammer
• Mildred Pierce
• "Miles Pennoyer" (first short story collection published in 1945)
  • Number Seven Queer Street
• "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"
• Miriam
• Mister Roberts
• Mistress Masham's Repose
• The Monster
• The Moomins
• Mother Earth
• The Moving Finger
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
• The Mule
• My Best Science Fiction Story
• My Father's Dragon
• The Naked and the Dead
• Native Son
• The Naughtiest Girl
• Nero Wolfe Series started in 1934 but continued through the decade.
  • Over My Dead Body
  • Where There's A Will
  • The Silent Speaker
  • Too Many Women
  • And Be A Villain
  • The Second Confession
• Nightfall (1941)
• Nightmare Alley
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Noddy Series started in 1949.
• No Longer Human
• Not Final!
• No Woman Born
• Olivia (1949)
• On Fairy-Stories
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
• Los Pájaros de Fuego
• Papelucho
• Pavilion of Women
• The Pearl
• Penny Parker series:
  • The Vanishing Houseboat
  • Tale of the Witch Doll
  • Danger at the Drawbridge
  • Behind the Green Door
  • Clue of the Silken Ladder
  • The Secret Pact
  • The Clock Strikes Thirteen
  • The Wishing Well
  • Saboteurs on the River
  • Ghost Beyond the Gate
  • Hoofbeats on the Turnpike
  • Voice From the Cave
  • Guilt of the Brass Thieves
  • Signal In the Dark
  • Whispering Walls
  • Swamp Island
  • The Cry At Midnight
• Pippi Longstocking series started in 1944.
• The Plague
• The Poor Mouth
• The Power and the Glory
• The Pursuit of Love
  • Love in a Cold Climate
• The Railway Series started in 1945.
• The Razor's Edge
• The Reluctant Widow
• Ride This Night
• Reason
• The Red Lion
• Red Planet
• Rick Brant
• Robbie
• Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
• Robots Have No Tails (series of short stories started in 1943)
• Rocket Ship Galileo (part of the Heinlein juveniles series)
• Runaround
• Sad Cypress
• Scanners Live in Vain
• The Screwtape Letters
• Search by the Foundation
• Search by the Mule
• The Secret Sense
• Seven Men of Gascony
• Shane
• The Six Bullerby Children
• Sixth Column
• Slan
• Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen
• Space Cadet
• Theater Shoes
• The Star Kings
• St Clare's
• The Stolen Spring
• The Stranger
• Stuart Little
• Suite Française
• Taken at the Flood
• Tales of the South Pacific
• Tall Tale America
• Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• "The Traders"
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Trixie Belden Series began in 1948.
• The Tunnel
• The Twenty One Balloons
• Typewriter in the Sky
• Under the Volcano
• Viagens Interplanetarias Series began in 1949.
• "Victory Unintentional"
• Waldo
• The Way West
• The Wind on the Moon
• Without Seeing The Dawn

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