1950


The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
The Martian Chronicles
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
Strangers on a Train
A Town Like Alice
A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)
The Catcher in the Rye
The 13 Clocks
Barabbas
The Haunting of Hill House
Fahrenheit 451
The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
The Story of Art
Lolita
[Published pseudoscience] is a serious threat to education and, I believe, to the democratic principle itself…. No amount of lying will alter the truth,—but lying can alter the willingness of a people to accept the truth.
Dean B. McLaughlin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

A.J. Arberry
Here we may observe fully developed the doctrine of passing away in God (fanā) which from Abū Yazīd's time onwards assumes a central position in the structure of Sufi theory. It was after all not a difficult transition to make from saying that all else but God is nothing (which is the logical outcome of the extreme ascetic teaching that the world is worthless and only God's service is a proper preoccupation of the believer's heart), to claiming that when self as well as the world has been cast a ...more
A.J. Arberry, Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam

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