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1956 Books
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Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.34 — 281,610 ratings — published 1956
The Fall (Vintage International)
by (shelved 14 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.02 — 142,276 ratings — published 1956
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.01 — 312,361 ratings — published 1956
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,495 ratings — published 1956
The Stars My Destination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.05 — 56,465 ratings — published 1956
The City and the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.07 — 37,100 ratings — published 1956
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 7 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.28 — 718,519 ratings — published 1956
Double Star (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,694 ratings — published 1956
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,828 ratings — published 1956
Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.82 — 39,137 ratings — published 1956
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.16 — 65,431 ratings — published 1956
Old Yeller (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.11 — 105,049 ratings — published 1956
The Minority Report (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.85 — 25,517 ratings — published 1956
Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,644 ratings — published 1956
Seize the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,946 ratings — published 1956
The Shrinking Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,557 ratings — published 1956
Quiet Days in Clichy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.61 — 6,217 ratings — published 1956
Wildfire at Midnight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,596 ratings — published 1956
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,747 ratings — published 1956
The Secret Speech (Leo Demidov, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,521 ratings — published 2009
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,803 ratings — published 1956
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,292 ratings — published 1956
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,594 ratings — published 1956
The Outsider (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,612 ratings — published 1956
Lady Sings the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,904 ratings — published 1956
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,341 ratings — published 1956
The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,468 ratings — published 1956
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.00 — 99,070 ratings — published 1956
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.52 — 31,294 ratings — published 1956
Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,904 ratings — published 1956
A Christmas Memory (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.24 — 19,029 ratings — published 1956
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,252 ratings — published 1956
The Organization Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.80 — 372 ratings — published 1956
A Walk on the Wild Side (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,638 ratings — published 1956
Pincher Martin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,678 ratings — published 1956
Imperial Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,353 ratings — published 1956
The Floating Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,143 ratings — published 1956
Final del juego (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,205 ratings — published 1956
Cinque storie ferraresi: dentro le mura (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,378 ratings — published 1960
The Fountain Overflows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,470 ratings — published 1956
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.07 — 14,679 ratings — published 1956
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.39 — 82,129 ratings — published 1944
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.30 — 526,344 ratings — published 1943
The Calculus Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,250 ratings — published 1956
Madeline and the Bad Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,553 ratings — published 1956
If I Ran the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,027 ratings — published 1956
Lucy Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,260 ratings — published 1956
“Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most formidable barriers raised by the majority around the free expression of opinion, and, as a result, the frightening oneness of American thinking, the absence of eccentricity and divergence from the norm.
A perfect liberty of the Mind exists in America, said Tocqueville, just as long as the sovereign majority has yet to decide its course. But once the majority has made up its mind, then all contrary thought must cease, and all controversy must be abandoned, not at the risk of death or physical punishment, but rather at the more subtle and more intolerable pain of ostracism, of being shunned by one's fellows, of being rejected by society.
Throughout history kings and princely rulers had sought without success to control human thought, that most elusive and invisible power of all. Yet where absolute monarchs had failed, democracy succeeds, for the strength of the majority is unlimited and all pervasive, and the doctrines of equality and majority rule have substituted for the tyranny of the few over the many the more absolute, imperious and widely accepted tyranny of the many over the few.”
― Democracy in America
A perfect liberty of the Mind exists in America, said Tocqueville, just as long as the sovereign majority has yet to decide its course. But once the majority has made up its mind, then all contrary thought must cease, and all controversy must be abandoned, not at the risk of death or physical punishment, but rather at the more subtle and more intolerable pain of ostracism, of being shunned by one's fellows, of being rejected by society.
Throughout history kings and princely rulers had sought without success to control human thought, that most elusive and invisible power of all. Yet where absolute monarchs had failed, democracy succeeds, for the strength of the majority is unlimited and all pervasive, and the doctrines of equality and majority rule have substituted for the tyranny of the few over the many the more absolute, imperious and widely accepted tyranny of the many over the few.”
― Democracy in America
“This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.”
― The Stars My Destination
― The Stars My Destination
