1944


Kaputt
Ficciones
The Razor’s Edge
Nada
A Bell for Adano
No Exit
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
They Were Sisters
Towards Zero (Superintendent Battle, #5)
Transit
The Glass Menagerie
The Horse's Mouth
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
The Lost Weekend
The Drinker
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCode Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysSalt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysRose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
YA Fiction set in the 1940s
245 books — 159 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Stranger by Albert Camus
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
822 books — 1,145 voters
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisFarmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. TolkienAnimal Farm by George OrwellStuart Little by E.B. WhiteThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Best Fantasy of the 40s
47 books — 50 voters

But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them in the realm of relativity—giving the onlooker dominion over time and space, because time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Dimitri Marianoff, Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man

Aleister Crowley
The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings! The fact is (again!) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much easier to drift down the river of discourse, "lazily, lazily, drowsily, drowsily, In the noonday sun." Why is this so satisfactory? Because although we ...more
Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears

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