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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 329,262 ratings — published 1940
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 125,174 ratings — published 1940
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,321 ratings — published 1940
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,197 ratings — published 1940
The Invention of Morel (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,533 ratings — published 1940
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.20 — 48,320 ratings — published 1940
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,628,595 ratings — published 1943
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.99 — 46,051 ratings — published 1940
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,550,094 ratings — published 1942
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,852,252 ratings — published 1945
Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.09 — 44,480 ratings — published 1940
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,353,403 ratings — published 1947
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.31 — 537,321 ratings — published 1943
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Hercule Poirot, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 47,882 ratings — published 1940
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 294,744 ratings — published 1948
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 29,256 ratings — published 1940
Journey into Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,565 ratings — published 1940
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.94 — 50,464 ratings — published 1940
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,365 ratings — published 1940
The Ox-Bow Incident (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,914 ratings — published 1940
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.26 — 200,604 ratings — published 1942
Horton Hatches the Egg (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.19 — 50,615 ratings — published 1940
The Pilgrim Hawk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,672 ratings — published 1940
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 — 95,473 ratings — published 1940
The Hamlet (The Snopes Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,201 ratings — published 1940
I Capture the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,468 ratings — published 1949
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.02 — 336,813 ratings — published 1947
You Can't Go Home Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,502 ratings — published 1940
La familia de Pascual Duarte (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,634 ratings — published 1942
City of Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 333,787 ratings — published 2019
Poet in New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,368 ratings — published 1940
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.43 — 413,664 ratings — published 2021
The Aleph and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,784 ratings — published 1945
El túnel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,266 ratings — published 1948
Mr Skeffington (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.91 — 636 ratings — published 1940
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.81 — 137,318 ratings — published 1942
The Problem of Pain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.13 — 77,833 ratings — published 1940
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.55 — 45,092 ratings — published 1948
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,914 ratings — published 1946
Survival in Auschwitz (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.35 — 91,357 ratings — published 1947
The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,305 ratings — published 1945
Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,812 ratings — published 1946
Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,225 ratings — published 1948
Their Finest Hour (The Second World War, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,753 ratings — published 1949
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.27 — 990 ratings — published 1969
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,922 ratings — published 1949
Near to the Wild Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,587 ratings — published 1943
The Man Who Loved Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1940)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,782 ratings — published 1940
“Language, Sweet," said Magnus's mother, arriving with a plate full of homemade biscuits. She didn't scold him too harshly about his talk these days. Magnus suspected this was because Mama shared Uncle Sweet's opinion about the Nazis. Yet despite the shortages and rationing, she had managed to turn out the most delicious biscuits Magnus had ever tasted. They were redolent of butter, which Mrs. Gundersen up the hill traded for apples from the family orchard.
Uncle Sweet made a great show of fanning himself and swooning as he ate a biscuit. "Language," he said, "is nothing but a bunch of words, and there are no words to express how wonderful this cookie is. I swear, if you were not already married, I would have you locked in a workroom like Rumpelstiltskin's daughter, forced to bake for me all day." He stole another biscuit from the platter and headed for the basement, lighting his way with an oil lamp. No one ever asked where his photographic chemicals came from- no one wanted to hold the answer like a piece of stolen fruit.”
― The Apple Orchard
Uncle Sweet made a great show of fanning himself and swooning as he ate a biscuit. "Language," he said, "is nothing but a bunch of words, and there are no words to express how wonderful this cookie is. I swear, if you were not already married, I would have you locked in a workroom like Rumpelstiltskin's daughter, forced to bake for me all day." He stole another biscuit from the platter and headed for the basement, lighting his way with an oil lamp. No one ever asked where his photographic chemicals came from- no one wanted to hold the answer like a piece of stolen fruit.”
― The Apple Orchard
“You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided outlook and look at everything in terms of science. Obviously my method of thought and reasoning is influenced by a scientific training – if that were not so my scientific training will have been a waste and a failure. But you look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation of life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment. Your theories are those which you and many other people find easiest and pleasantest to believe, but so far as I can see, they have no foundation other than they leaf to a pleasanter view of life (and an exaggerated idea of our own importance)...
I agree that faith is essential to success in life (success of any sort) but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining. Anyone able to believe in all that religion implies obviously must have such faith, but I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world…
It has just occurred to me that you may raise the question of the creator. A creator of what? ... I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our significant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more significant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith – as I have defined it.”
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I agree that faith is essential to success in life (success of any sort) but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining. Anyone able to believe in all that religion implies obviously must have such faith, but I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world…
It has just occurred to me that you may raise the question of the creator. A creator of what? ... I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our significant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more significant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith – as I have defined it.”
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