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This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1950s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1950 through 1959 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1920s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1920 through 1929 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...
1950 in literature – Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles; Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano; C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Isaac Asimov's I, Robot; Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced and Three Blind Mice and Other Stories; Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast; Pablo Neruda's Canto General.
Robert Silverberg, in a 2010 essay, argued that the true Golden Age was the 1950s, and that the "Golden Age" of the 1940s was a kind of "false dawn". "Until the decade of the fifties", Silverberg wrote, "there was essentially no market for science fiction books at all"; the audience supported only a few special interest small presses.
The Theatre of the Absurd influenced Harold Pinter (1930–2008), author of (The Birthday Party, 1958), whose works are often characterised by menace or claustrophobia. Beckett also influenced Tom Stoppard (born 1937) (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1966). Stoppard's works are however also notable for their high-spirited wit and the ...
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. [1] Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal dominated the list for 24 weeks and Ernest Hemingway had his only Number 1 bestseller that year. [2]
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