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  • Cover of The Magus
    The MagusNovel

    John Fowles · standalone novel · 1965

    Postmodern and psychological thriller, mysterious in tone.

    “Urfe becomes embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which become increasingly dark and serious.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Island
    IslandNovel

    Aldous Huxley · standalone novel · 1962

    Reflective in tone, about faith and religion and ecological collapse, set in islands.

    “Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Children of Violence
    Children of ViolenceSeries

    series · 5 books · 1952

    completed

    Reflective in tone, about coming of age, set in africa.

    Start with Martha Quest →

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  • Cover of Mother Night
    Mother NightNovel

    Kurt Vonnegut & Jr. · standalone novel · 1962

    Reflective in tone, about war, set in our world.

    “Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American playwright who grew up in Germany, writes his memoirs from an Israeli prison cell awaiting trial for war crimes.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byidentityliterary & generalmid 20th centuryeuropedark

  • Cover of Cards of Identity
    Cards of IdentityNovel

    Nigel Dennis · standalone novel · 1955

    Satire, about class conflict, set in british isles.

    “The case histories are in fact fictional representations of a character in line with their theoretical biases, rather than analyses of real patients.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Pincher Martin
    Pincher MartinNovel

    William Golding · standalone novel · 1956

    About survival and madness, set in our world and at sea.

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