Best Books of the Mid-20th Century 1940-1970

Post-war fiction, existentialism, magic realism — essential reading from 1940 to 1970.

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
La chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Heretics by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Adam Bede by George Eliot

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