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The Naked and the Dead
novel by Norman Mailer

Walden Two
1948 novel by B.F. Skinner

Other Voices, Other Rooms
novel by Truman Capote
Oeroeg
Oeroeg (translated into English as "The Black Lake") is the first novel by Hella Haasse. First published anonymously in 1948, it has become one of the best-known Dutch novels and a staple of literary education for many Dutch schoolchildren. The novel, a Bildungsroman, is set in the former Dutch East Indies: the anonymous narrator grows up on a plantation in the Dutch colony of West Java, his childhood friend is a native boy of the same age. As the narrator grows up, he finds himself becoming estranged from his friend, as a result of the political and racial circumstances of colonial life. Afte

I Capture the Castle
1948 novel by Dodie Smith