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1956 Books
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Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.34 — 249,576 ratings — published 1956
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
by (shelved 12 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.01 — 304,896 ratings — published 1956
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,081 ratings — published 1956
The Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.03 — 134,572 ratings — published 1956
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
by (shelved 7 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.28 — 706,226 ratings — published 1956
The Stars My Destination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,359 ratings — published 1956
The City and the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.07 — 36,326 ratings — published 1956
Double Star (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.91 — 24,347 ratings — published 1956
Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,388 ratings — published 1956
Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,341 ratings — published 1956
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,499 ratings — published 1956
Old Yeller (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.11 — 103,543 ratings — published 1956
The Minority Report (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,848 ratings — published 1956
Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.64 — 24,815 ratings — published 1956
Seize the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,635 ratings — published 1956
Quiet Days in Clichy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.61 — 6,093 ratings — published 1956
Wildfire at Midnight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,465 ratings — published 1956
The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,156 ratings — published 1956
Shoot the Piano Player (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,708 ratings — published 1956
The Secret Speech (Leo Demidov, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,229 ratings — published 2009
Italian Folktales (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,729 ratings — published 1956
The Shrinking Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.77 — 9,255 ratings — published 1956
Lady Sings the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,633 ratings — published 1956
The Lonely Londoners (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,716 ratings — published 1956
The Art of Loving (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.00 — 95,065 ratings — published 1956
The Last Question (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,999 ratings — published 1956
Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,683 ratings — published 1956
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,818 ratings — published 1956
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.06 — 42,936 ratings — published 1956
The Outsider (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,553 ratings — published 1956
A Walk on the Wild Side (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,615 ratings — published 1956
Imperial Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,220 ratings — published 1956
The Floating Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,088 ratings — published 1956
Final del juego (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,866 ratings — published 1956
Cinque storie ferraresi: dentro le mura (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,279 ratings — published 1960
The Fountain Overflows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,380 ratings — published 1956
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.07 — 14,429 ratings — published 1956
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.40 — 78,814 ratings — published 1944
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.30 — 511,033 ratings — published 1943
The Calculus Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,039 ratings — published 1956
Madeline and the Bad Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,510 ratings — published 1956
If I Ran the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,941 ratings — published 1956
Lucy Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,166 ratings — published 1956
Der Besuch der alten Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.67 — 37,813 ratings — published 1956
Till We Have Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.20 — 79,985 ratings — published 1956
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,066 ratings — published 1954
The Last of the Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1956)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,496 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
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience—yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without leaders, prompted without aim—except the one to make good, to be on the move, to function, to go ahead. What is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
