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A Mathematician's Apology
A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy.
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A Moment in Time (novel)
A Moment in Time is a 1964 novel written by English author H. E. Bates.
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A Presumption of Death
A Presumption of Death is a mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers.
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A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 – March 8, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.
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Alan Judd
Alan Judd is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 in Saltpond.
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And So to Murder
And So to Murder is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson.
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Angela Carter
Angela Olive Carter-Pearce (née Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the pen name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.
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Anna Akhmatova
Anna Andreyevna Gorenkoa; Анна Андріївна Горенко, Anna Andriyivna Horenko (– 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), was one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century.
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Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; 10 April 1901 – 5 December 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter.
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Appointment with Venus
Appointment with Venus is a novel by Jerrard Tickell published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1951, leading to a British film adaptation the same year and a Danish film adaptation in 1962.
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April 13
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April 15
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April 24
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Armstrong Sperry
Armstrong Wells Sperry (November 7, 1897 – April 26, 1976) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature.
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Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, (Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.
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Arthur Marder
Arthur Jacob Marder (8 March 1910 – 25 December 1980) was an American historian specializing in British naval history in the period 1880 - 1945.
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Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist.
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Artturi Järviluoma
Kustaa Artturi Järviluoma (b. 9 August 1879 in Alavus - d. 31 January 1942 in Helsinki) was a Finnish journalist, screenwriter and author.
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August 4
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August 7
This day marks the approximate midpoint of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the June solstice).
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
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Battle of the Netherlands
The Battle of the Netherlands (Slag om Nederland) was a military campaign part of Case Yellow (Fall Gelb), the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.
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BBC Home Service
The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4.
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Bernard Leach
Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born 16 March 1941) is an Italian director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director), The Sheltering Sky, Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, between Euston Road and Holborn.
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Blue Willow
Blue Willow is a realistic children's fiction book by Doris Gates, published in 1940.
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Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is a Southern United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.
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Brian O'Nolan
Brian O'Nolan (Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.
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British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.
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Bruce Chatwin
Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist.
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C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was a novelist and English physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.
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C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.
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Call It Courage
Call It Courage (published as The Boy Who Was Afraid in the United Kingdom) is a 1940 children's novel written and illustrated by American author Armstrong Sperry.
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Carnegie Medal (literary award)
The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new book for children or young adults.
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Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.
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Catholic social teaching
Catholic social teaching is the Catholic doctrines on matters of human dignity and common good in society.
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Caxton Club
The Caxton Club is a private social club and bibliophilic society founded in Chicago in 1895 to promote the book arts and the history of the book.
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Charles Langbridge Morgan
Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958) was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage.
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Charley Chase
Charley Chase (born Charles Joseph Parrott, October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940) was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies.
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Children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.
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Christian left
The term Christian left refers to a spectrum of centre-left and left-wing Christian political and social movements that largely embrace viewpoints described as social justice and uphold a social gospel.
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Christina Stead
Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations.
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Christopher Serpell
Christopher Serpell (1 July 1910– 3 June 1991) was a journalist and BBC diplomatic correspondent.
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Clapham Common Northside
Clapham Common Northside is a road in South West London.
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Clayton Rawson
Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician.
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Collaboration with the Axis Powers
Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers in World War II, some citizens and organizations, prompted by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, antisemitism, opportunism, self-defense, or often a combination, knowingly collaborated with the Axis Powers.
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Constantin Banu
Constantin Gheorghe Banu (March 20, 1873 – September 8, 1940) was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician, who served as Arts and Religious Affairs Minister in 1922–1923.
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Cue for Treason
Cue for Treason (1940) is a children's historical novel written by Geoffrey Trease, and is his best-known work.
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Curragh Camp
Curragh Camp (Campa an Churraigh) is an army base and military college located in The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland.
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Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer.
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.
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Daniel Boone (book)
Daniel Boone is a book by James Daugherty about the famous pioneer.
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Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon (Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.
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December 21
In the Northern Hemisphere, December 21 is usually the shortest day of the year and is sometimes regarded as the first day of winter.
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December 22
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December 29
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December 5
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Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati-Traverso (14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera.
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Doris Gates
Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction.
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Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes (10 August 1904 – 6 May 1993) was an American crime writer and literary critic.
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Dorothy Kunhardt
Dorothy Kunhardt (née Dorothy Meserve; September 29, 1901 – December 23, 1979) was an American children's-book author, best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny.
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Douglas Blackwood
George Douglas Morant Blackwood, (11 October 1909 – 2 March 1997) was a British publisher and a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring more than 60 children's books under the pen name Doctor Seuss (abbreviated Dr. Seuss).
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Dunkirk evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
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E. F. Benson
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.
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Edmund Crispin
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) (2 October 1921 – 15 September 1978), an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels.
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes.
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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".
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Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940) was an American poet.
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Emlyn Williams
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.
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Emmanuel Mounier
Emmanuel Mounier (1 May 1905 – 22 March 1950) was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist.
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Enemy alien
In customary international law, an enemy alien is any native, citizen, denizen or subject of any foreign nation or government with which a domestic nation or government is in conflict with and who are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed.
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Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.
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Erik of het klein insectenboek
Eric in the Land of the Insects, originally called Erik of het klein insectenboek (English: Erik or the small book of insects) in Dutch, is a 1941 Dutch children's novel by Godfried Bomans.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.
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Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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Esprit (magazine)
Esprit is a French literary magazine.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.
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Fanny by Gaslight (novel)
Fanny by Gaslight is the best known novel of Michael Sadleir.
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Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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Fantastic Novels
Fantastic Novels was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine published by the Munsey Company of New York from 1940 to 1941, and again by Popular Publications, also of New York, from 1948 to 1951.
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Fantasy literature
Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.
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Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.
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February 11
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February 29
February 29, also known as leap day or leap year day, is a date added to most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024.
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February 9
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Fleur Jaeggy
Fleur Jaeggy (born 1940, Zurich) is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian.
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Florence White (writer)
Florence White (20 June 1863 in Peckham, then in Surrey, now in London – 12 March 1940 in Fareham, Hampshire) was a food writer.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940.
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Frank Baker (author)
Francis Baker (22 May 1908 – 1982) was a British author of novels and short stories, mainly on fantastic or supernatural themes.
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G. H. Hardy
Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.
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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
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Geoffrey Trease
(Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 in Nottingham – 27 January 1998 in Bath) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 (Bows Against the Barons) and 1997 (Cloak for a Spy).
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George Gamow
George Gamow (March 4, 1904- August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
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George Passant
George Passant is the first published of C. P. Snow's series of novels Strangers and Brothers, but the second according to the internal chronology.
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George Shiels
George Shiels (24 June 1881 – 19 September 1949) was an Irish dramatist whose plays were a success both in his native Ulster and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
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Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel (30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris.
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Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist.
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German occupation of the Channel Islands
The German occupation of the Channel Islands lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until their liberation on 9 May 1945.
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Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916 – 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.
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Godfried Bomans
Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans (2 March 1913 – 22 December 1971) was a popular Dutch author and television personality and a prominent Dutch Catholic.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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Guildhall Library
The Guildhall Library is a public reference library specialising in subjects relevant to London.
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Guilty Men
Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974), better known as H.E. Bates, was an English writer and author.
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H. F. M. Prescott
Hilda Frances Margaret Prescott, more usually known as H. F. M. Prescott (22 February 1896 – 1972), was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, author, academic, and historian.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Heðin Brú
Heðin Brú (pronounced; August 17, 1901, Skálavík – May 18, 1987, Tórshavn) was the pen-name of Hans Jacob Jacobsen, a Faroese novelist and translator.
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Henry Bellamann
Heinrich Hauer Bellamann (April 28, 1882 – June 16, 1945) was an American author, whose bestselling novel Kings Row exposed the hypocrisy of small-town life in the midwest, addressing many social taboos.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
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Horizon (magazine)
Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published in London, UK, between December 1939 and January 1950.
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Horton Hatches the Egg
Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House.
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How to Read a Book
How to Read a Book is a 1940 book by Mortimer Adler.
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Human Voices
Human Voices is a novel by British author Penelope Fitzgerald.
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Humbert Wolfe
Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant.
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Indology
Indology or South Asian studies is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of India and as such is a subset of Asian studies.
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Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Ingri d'Aulaire (December 27, 1904 – October 24, 1980) and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (September 30, 1898 – May 1, 1986) were U.S. immigrant writers and illustrators of children's books who worked primarily as a team.
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Irish language
The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.
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Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
The original Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla war against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence between 1919 and 1921.
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Isaac Babel
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (p; – 27 January 1940) was a Russian-language journalist, playwright, literary translator, historian and Bolshevik revolutionary.
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J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984), known by his pen name J.B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator and broadcaster.
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J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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J. M. G. Le Clézio
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French writer and professor.
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Jacob Hiegentlich
Jacob Hiegentlich (30 April 1907 – 18 May 1940) was a gay Dutch poet of Jewish descent.
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Jakob Streit
Jakob Streit (23 September 1910 in Spiez, Switzerland – 15 May 2009 in Spiez) was a Swiss author, teacher and anthroposophist.
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James Daugherty
James Henry Daugherty (June 1, 1889, Asheville, North Carolina – February 21, 1974, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American modernist painter, muralist, children's book author, and illustrator.
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
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January 15
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January 27
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January 4
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January 5
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Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades.
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Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
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Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist and politician.
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Jerrard Tickell
Edward Jerrard Tickell (14 February 1905 – 27 March 1966) was an Irish writer, known for his novels and World War II historical books.
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Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer.
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John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
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John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (8 October 187217 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet.
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John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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John O'Hara
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.
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John R. Tunis
John Roberts Tunis (December 7, 1889 – February 4, 1975), "the 'inventor' of the modern sports story", was an American writer and broadcaster.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
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Joyce Carey
Joyce Carey, OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward.
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July 17
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July 26
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July 31
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June 10
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June 20
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer solstice sometimes occurs on this date, while the Winter solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.
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June 5
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Kallocain
Kallocain is a 1940 dystopian novel by Swedish novelist Karin Boye which envisions a future of drab terror.
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Karin Boye
Karin Maria Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist.
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Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 film starring Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, and Ronald Reagan that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Kitty Barne
Marion Catherine "Kitty" Barne (17 November 1882 – 3 February 1961) was a British screenwriter and author of children's books, especially on music and musical themes.
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Ladybird Books
Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
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Lawrence Riley
(The disambiguation page referred to above also has people named Lawrence Riley.) Lawrence Riley (1896–1974) was a successful American playwright and screenwriter.
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Léocadia
Léocadia (Time Remembered) is a play by Jean Anouilh that premiered at the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris on 2 December 1940.
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Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80).
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Les Maîtres
Les Maîtres (The Masters) is the sixth volume in Georges Duhamel's Chronique des Pasquier.
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Literary magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.
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Longman
Longman, commonly known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.
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Loughborough
Loughborough is a town in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England, seat of Charnwood Borough Council, and home to Loughborough University.
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Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939Born 1939 as per biography, Maeve Binchy by Piers Dudgeon, Thomas Dunne Books 2013; (hardcover), pp. 4, 280, 302; (ebook) – 30 July 2012), known as Maeve Binchy, was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker best known for her sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature, and her often clever surprise endings.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist.
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March 10
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March 12
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March 16
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March 23
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March 28
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March 7
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953); accessed December 8, 2014.
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Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic.
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Mary Bathurst Deane
Mary Bathurst Deane (1843 – 13 April 1940) was an English novelist.
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Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.
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May 1
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May 28
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May 7
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century.
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Mecklenburgh Square
Mecklenburgh Square is a Grade II listed square located in the Kings Cross area of central London.
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Michael Dobbs
Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author, most notably for his House of Cards trilogy.
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Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.
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Michael Sadleir
Michael Sadleir (25 December 1888 – 13 December 1957) was a British publisher, novelist, book collector and bibliographer.
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Michael Thwaites
Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO (30 May 1915 – 1 November 2005) was an Australian academic, poet, and intelligence officer.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (p; – February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.
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Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author.
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Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti) is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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Murder in the Submarine Zone
Murder in the Submarine Zone (also published as Nine—And Death Makes Ten and Murder in the Atlantic) is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson.
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Nancy Mitford
Nancy Freeman-Mitford (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist.
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Nathanael West
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Native Son
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright.
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Never Surrender (novel)
Never Surrender is a novel by Michael Dobbs, based on historical events of the first few weeks of May 1940.
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Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
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Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga (sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").
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November 15
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November 20
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November 27
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October 15
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October 20
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October 4
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and counting-out rhyme.
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Over My Dead Body (novel)
Over My Dead Body is the seventh Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout.
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Owen Glendower (novel)
Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942.
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Oxford World's Classics
Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.
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Pal Joey (novel)
Pal Joey is a 1940 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
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Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao
Panuganti Lakshmi Narasimha chary (Telugu - పానుగంటి లక్ష్మీ నరసింహా రావు) (2 november 1865 – 1 January 1940) was one of the famous modern Telugu writers.
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Pat the Bunny
Pat the Bunny is a "touch and feel" book for small children and babies and has been a perennial best-seller in the United States since its publication in 1940.
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Paternoster Row
Paternoster Row was a street in the City of London that is supposed to have received its name from the fact that, when the monks and clergy of St Paul's Cathedral would go in procession chanting the great litany, they would recite the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster being its opening line in Latin) in the litany along this part of the route.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Peril at End House (play)
Peril at End House is a 1940 play based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.
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Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Peter Pohl
Peter Pohl (born 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films.
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Peter Watson (arts benefactor)
Victor William (Peter) Watson (14 September 1908 – 3 May 1956) was a wealthy English art collector and benefactor.
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Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian.
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909–1976) was an American mystery author.
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Phyllis Matthewman
Phyllis Matthewman (1896–1979), British writer of children's books, mostly boarding school stories.
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Pohjalaisia (play)
Pohjalaisia is a Finnish play.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog is a collection of short prose stories written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published by Dent on 4 April 1940.
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Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)
Pride and Prejudice is a 1940 American film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.
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Pridi Banomyong
Pridi Banomyong (ปรีดี พนมยงค์,,; 11 May 1900 – 2 May 1983) was a Thai politician.
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Puffin Books
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books.
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.
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Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms.
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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Raymond Postgate
Raymond William Postgate (6 November 1896 – 29 March 1971) was an English socialist, author, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet, who founded the Good Food Guide.
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Révolution nationale
The Révolution nationale (National Revolution) was the official ideological program promoted by the Vichy regime (the “French State”) which had been established in July 1940 and led by Marshal Philippe Pétain.
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René Avilés Fabila
René Avilés Fabila (November 15, 1940 – October 9, 2016) was a Mexican author whose work was recognized in Mexico and Iberoamerica.
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Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.
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Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
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Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.
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Sad Cypress
Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March 1940 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
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Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Sangorski & Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Second Great Fire of London
The "Second Great Fire of London" refers to one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz.
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Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher.
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September 10
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Sheilah Graham
Sheilah Graham (born Lily Shiel; 15 September 1904 – 17 November 1988) was a British-born, nationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywood's "Golden Age".
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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St John's College, Oxford
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.
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Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist, and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.
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Strangers and Brothers
Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1970.
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Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author of detective novels.
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Synthetic Men of Mars
Synthetic Men of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the ninth of his Barsoom series.
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T. O'Conor Sloane
Thomas O'Conor Sloane (November 21, 1851 – August 7, 1940) was the editor of Amazing Stories from 1929-38 as T. O'Conor Sloane.
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Tavistock Square
Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden.
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Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.
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Ted Lewis (writer)
Ted Lewis (15 January 1940 – 1982) was a British writer known for his crime fiction.
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Terence Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist.
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The Big Six
The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940.
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The Birth and Death of the Sun
The Birth and Death of the Sun is a popular science book by theoretical physicist and cosmologist George Gamow, first published in 1940, exploring atomic chemistry, stellar evolution, and cosmology.
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The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
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The Case of the Gilded Fly
The Case of the Gilded Fly is a locked-room mystery by the English author Edmund Crispin (Bruce Montgomery), first published in the UK in 1944.
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The Corinthian (novel)
The Corinthian is a regency novel by Georgette Heyer.
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The Corn Is Green
The Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams.
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The Don Flows Home to the Sea
The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940) is the second in the series of the great Don epic (Tikhii Don) written by Mikhail Sholokhov.
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The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair (1951) is a novel by British author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films (released in 1955 and 1999) that were adapted from the novel.
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.
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The Headless Lady
The Headless Lady (1940) is a whodunnit mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Invention of Morel
La invención de Morel (1940) — translated as The Invention of Morel or Morel's Invention — is a novel by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares.
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.
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The Kaiser's Last Kiss
The Kaiser's Last Kiss is a 2003 novel written by Alan Judd.
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The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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The Left Leg
The Left Leg is a novel that was published in 1940 by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton.
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The Long Winter (novel)
The Long Winter is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her ''Little House'' series.
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The Man Who Could Not Shudder
The Man Who Could Not Shudder, first published in 1940, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell.
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The Man Who Loved Children
The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead.
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The Ministry of Fear
The Ministry of Fear is a 1943 novel written by Graham Greene.
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The Mixture as Before
The Mixture as Before is a collection of 10 short stories by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, first published by William Heinemann in 1940.
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The Naughtiest Girl in the School
The Naughtiest Girl in the School is the first novel in The Naughtiest Girl series by Enid Blyton, published in 1940.
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The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell.
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The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene.
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The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain is a 1940 book on the problem of evil by C. S. Lewis, in which Lewis argues that human pain, animal pain, and hell are not sufficient reasons to reject belief in a good and powerful God.
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The Secret of Dr. Honigberger
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The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106.
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The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari) is a novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.
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The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan.
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Thomas Little Heath
Sir Thomas Little Heath (5 October 1861 – 16 March 1940) was a British civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer.
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Tim Brooke-Taylor
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (born 17 July 1940) is an English comic actor.
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To the Finland Station
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940) is a book by American critic and historian Edmund Wilson.
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University of Bristol
The University of Bristol (simply referred to as Bristol University and abbreviated as Bris. in post-nominal letters, or UoB) is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.
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Uriage-les-Bains
Uriage-les-Bains (or Uriage) is a spa town located above sea level.
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Verdict of Twelve
Verdict of Twelve is a novel by Raymond Postgate first published in 1940 about a trial by jury seen through the eyes of each of the twelve jurors as they listen to the evidence and try to reach a unanimous verdict of either "Guilty" or "Not guilty".
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Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
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Visitors from London
Visitors from London is a children's novel written by Kitty Barne, illustrated with 40 drawings by Ruth Gervis, published by Dent in 1940.
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W. H. Davies
William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer.
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W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909 – November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator.
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Wendy Doniger
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (born November 20, 1940) is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades.
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Where There's a Will (novel)
Where There's a Will is the eighth Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout.
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Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 Cather's birth date is confirmed by a birth certificate and a January 22, 1874, letter of her father's referring to her. While working at McClure's Magazine, Cather claimed to be born in 1875. After 1920, she claimed 1876 as her birth year. That is the date carved into her gravestone at Jaffrey, New Hampshire. – April 24, 1947 Retrieved March 11, 2015.) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918).
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William Blackwood
William Blackwood (20 November 1776 – 16 September 1834) was a Scottish publisher who founded the firm of William Blackwood and Sons.
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William Saroyan
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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Xiao Hong
Xiao Hong or Hsiao Hung (2 June 1911 – 22 January 1942) was a Chinese writer.
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, MBE (זאב ז'בוטינסקי, Ze'ev Zhabotinski; זאב זשאבאטינסקי; born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Жаботи́нский; 5 (17) October 1880, Odessa – 4 August 1940, Hunter, New York), was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.
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1843 in literature
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1851 in literature
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1852 in literature
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1858 in literature
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1863 in literature
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1865 in literature
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1867 in literature
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1871 in literature
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1873 in literature
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1875 in literature
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1880 in literature
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1885 in literature
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1887 in literature
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1891 in literature
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1893 in literature
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1894 in literature
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1896 in literature
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1903 in literature
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1933 in literature
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1944 in literature
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1951 in literature
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1964 in literature
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1966 in literature
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1979 in literature
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1982 in literature
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1989 in literature
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1992 in literature
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1996 in literature
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2003 in literature
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