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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 327,139 ratings — published 1940
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,881 ratings — published 1940
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,036 ratings — published 1940
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,704 ratings — published 1940
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 46,986 ratings — published 1940
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,600,981 ratings — published 1943
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,550 ratings — published 1940
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,378 ratings — published 1940
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,520,047 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,797,386 ratings — published 1945
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,201 ratings — published 1940
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,325,143 ratings — published 1947
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,976 ratings — published 1940
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.31 — 532,463 ratings — published 1943
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 47,370 ratings — published 1940
Journey into Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,504 ratings — published 1940
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.94 — 49,893 ratings — published 1940
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,861 ratings — published 1940
Horton Hatches the Egg (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,543 ratings — published 1940
The Pilgrim Hawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,657 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 286,866 ratings — published 1948
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,400 ratings — published 1940
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,154 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,749 ratings — published 1948
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,043 ratings — published 1947
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,470 ratings — published 1940
La familia de Pascual Duarte (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,286 ratings — published 1942
The Ox-Bow Incident (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,867 ratings — published 1940
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 194,279 ratings — published 1942
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 331,592 ratings — published 2019
Poet in New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,114 ratings — published 1940
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.44 — 406,240 ratings — published 2021
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,887 ratings — published 1940
The Aleph and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,060 ratings — published 1945
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,274 ratings — published 1948
Mr Skeffington (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 614 ratings — published 1940
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.81 — 135,255 ratings — published 1942
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.55 — 44,433 ratings — published 1948
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,012 ratings — published 1946
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.35 — 90,426 ratings — published 1947
The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,969 ratings — published 1945
Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,360 ratings — published 1946
Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,007 ratings — published 1948
Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,710 ratings — published 1949
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 988 ratings — published 1969
The Man Who Loved Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,752 ratings — published 1940
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.95 — 23,952 ratings — published 1945
“Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse.”
― Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
― Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
“If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?”
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