New York Public Library's Books of the Century

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The following is a complete list of the titles included in the exhibition Books of the Century at The New York Public Library's Center for the Humanities, May 20, 1995-July 13, 1996, and in The New mostrar mais York Public Library's Books of the Century, published by Oxford University Press. Find the Book! mostrar menos
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Things Fall Apart (1958) de Chinua Achebe
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
O Estrangeiro (1942) de Albert Camus
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Lord Jim (1900) de Joseph Conrad
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Lover (1984) de Marguerite Duras
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Bride Price (1976) de Buchi Emecheta
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) de Frantz Fanon
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
A Passage to India (1924) de E. M. Forster
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha) (1970) de M. K. Gandhi
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (1978) de Ryszard Kapuściński
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Kim (1901) de Rudyard Kipling
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman In Guatemala (1983) de Rigoberta Menchú
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Guerrillas (1975) de V. S. Naipaul
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) de Alan Paton
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) de Jean Rhys
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Season of Migration to the North (1966) de Tayeb Salih
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Family of Man (1955) de Edward Steichen
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice (1945) de United Nations
Colonialism & Its Aftermath
The Education of Henry Adams (1907) de Henry Adams
Economics & Technology
A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957) de Milton Friedman
Economics & Technology
The Affluent Society (1958) de John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics & Technology
The Road to Serfdom (1944) de F. A. Hayek
Economics & Technology
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) de Jane Jacobs
Economics & Technology
Teoria Geral do Emprego, do Juro e da Moeda (1936) de John Maynard Keynes
Economics & Technology
Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog (1992) de Ed Krol
Economics & Technology
Superhighway-Superhoax (1970) de Helen Leavitt
Economics & Technology
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973) de E. F. Schumacher
Economics & Technology
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) de Thorstein Veblen
Economics & Technology
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904) de Max Weber
Economics & Technology
The Snowy Day (1962) de Ezra Jack Keats
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
O Leão, a Feiticeira e o Guarda-roupa (1950) de C. S. Lewis
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985) de Patricia MacLachlan
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) de Beatrix Potter
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio (1951) de J. D. Salinger
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Where the Wild Things Are (1963) de Maurice Sendak
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) de Betty Smith
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
Charlotte's Web (1952) de E. B. White
Favorites of Childhood and Youth
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947) de W. H. Auden
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) de Samuel Beckett
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Fictions (1944) de Jorge Luis Borges
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Waste Land (1922) de T. S. Eliot
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Invisible Man (1952) de Ralph Ellison
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Portable Faulkner (1946) de William Faulkner
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Portable Faulkner: Revised and Expanded Edition (1967) de William Faulkner
Landmarks of Modern Literature
O grande Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Gypsy Ballads (1928) de Federico García Lorca
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Cem Anos de Solidão (1967) de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Ulysses (1922) de James Joyce
Landmarks of Modern Literature
A Metamorfose (1915) de Franz Kafka
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Dover] (1915) de Franz Kafka
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Pé na Estrada (1957) de Jack Kerouac
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Magic Mountain (1924) de Thomas Mann
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Renascence and Other Poems (1917) de Edna St. Vincent Millay
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Song of Solomon (1977) de Toni Morrison
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Lolita (1955) de Vladimir Nabokov
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) de Luigi Pirandello
Landmarks of Modern Literature
In Search of Lost Time (1913) de Marcel Proust
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Portnoy's Complaint (1967) de Philip Roth
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Tender Buttons (1914) de Gertrude Stein
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Three Sisters (1901) de Anton Tschechow
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Rumo ao Farol (1927) de Virginia Woolf
Landmarks of Modern Literature
Native Son (1940) de Richard Wright
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Wild Swans at Coole (1920) de William Butler Yeats
Landmarks of Modern Literature
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1976) de Bruno Bettelheim
Mind & Spirit
Suicide (1897) de Emile Durkheim
Mind & Spirit
Studies in the psychology of sex (1940) de Havelock Ellis
Mind & Spirit
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) de Sigmund Freud
Mind & Spirit
O Profeta (1923) de Kahlil Gibran
Mind & Spirit
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) de William James
Mind & Spirit
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families (1969) de Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Mind & Spirit
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) de Ken Kesey
Mind & Spirit
The Politics of Ecstasy (Leary, Timothy) (1968) de Timothy Leary
Mind & Spirit
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) de Margaret Mead
Mind & Spirit
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (1957) de Bertrand Russell
Mind & Spirit
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943) de Jean-Paul Sartre
Mind & Spirit
Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945) de Benjamin Spock
Mind & Spirit
The Courage to Be (1952) de Paul Tillich
Mind & Spirit
The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) (1989) de Zondervan
Mind & Spirit
Silent Spring (1962) de Rachel Carson
Nature's Realm
Radioactive Substances (1904) de Marie Curie
Nature's Realm
The Meaning of Relativity (1922) de Albert Einstein
Nature's Realm
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949) de Aldo Leopold
Nature's Realm
King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animals' Ways (1949) de Konrad Lorenz
Nature's Realm
The Life of the Bee (1901) de Maurice Maeterlinck
Nature's Realm
Peterson Field Guides to Eastern Birds, 4th Edition (1934) de Roger Tory Peterson
Nature's Realm
Smoking and Health A Report of the Surgeon General de United States Department of Agriculture
Nature's Realm
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) de James D. Watson
Nature's Realm
The Diversity of Life (1992) de Edward O. Wilson
Nature's Realm
The complete poems, 1927–1979 (1983) de Elizabeth Bishop
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Goodnight Moon (1947) de Margaret Wise Brown
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Shadows on the Rock (1931) de Willa Cather
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Best of Simple (1961) de Langston Hughes
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) de Sarah Orne Jewett
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy (1956) de Juan Ramón Jiménez
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Story of My Life (1903) de Helen Keller
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
O Sol é para Todos (1960) de Harper Lee
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) de A. A. Milne
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Etiquette (1922) de Emily Post
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Joy of Cooking [1931]: A Facsimile of the First Edition 1931 (1998) de Irma S. Rombauer
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Pygmalion (1913) de George Bernard Shaw
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
O Hobbit (1937) de J. R. R. Tolkien
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) de P. G. Wodehouse
Optimism, Joy, Gentility
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues (1970) de Jim Bouton
Popular Culture
Tarzan of the Apes (1914) de Edgar Rice Burroughs
Popular Culture
In Cold Blood (1965) de Truman Capote
Popular Culture
Como Fazer Amigos e Influenciar Pessoas (1936) de Dale Carnegie
Popular Culture
The Big Sleep (1939) de Raymond Chandler
Popular Culture
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) de Agatha Christie
Popular Culture
O Cão dos Baskerville (1902) de Arthur Conan Doyle
Popular Culture
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) de Zane Grey
Popular Culture
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) de Robert A. Heinlein
Popular Culture
Catch-22 (1961) de Joseph Heller
Popular Culture
The Turn of the Screw (1898) de Henry James
Popular Culture
Carrie (1974) de Stephen King
Popular Culture
Peyton Place (1956) de Grace Metalious
Popular Culture
Gone with the Wind (1936) de Margaret Mitchell
Popular Culture
The Cat in the Hat (1957) de Dr. Seuss
Popular Culture
Drácula (1897) de Bram Stoker
Popular Culture
The Day of the Locust (1939) de Nathanael West
Popular Culture
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) de Tom Wolfe
Popular Culture
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) de Jane Addams
Protest & Progress
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) de James Agee
Protest & Progress
The Fire Next Time (1963) de James Baldwin
Protest & Progress
U.S.A. (1938) de John Dos Passos
Protest & Progress
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) de W. E. B. Du Bois
Protest & Progress
Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society (1960) de Paul Goodman
Protest & Progress
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (1991) de Alex Kotlowitz
Protest & Progress
The Battle with the Slum (1902) de Jacob A. Riis
Protest & Progress
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) de Randy Shilts
Protest & Progress
The Jungle (1906) de Upton Sinclair
Protest & Progress
Strange Fruit (1944) de Lillian Smith
Protest & Progress
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931) de Lincoln Steffens
Protest & Progress
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) de John Steinbeck
Protest & Progress
The House on Henry Street (1911) de Lillian D. Wald
Protest & Progress
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) de Malcolm X
Protest & Progress
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) de Margaret Atwood
Utopias & Dystopias
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) de J. M. Barrie
Utopias & Dystopias
O Mágico de Oz (1900) de L. Frank Baum
Utopias & Dystopias
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) de Ray Bradbury
Utopias & Dystopias
LARANJA MECÂNICA (1962) de Anthony Burgess
Utopias & Dystopias
Herland (1915) de Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Utopias & Dystopias
The Jewish State (1896) de Theodor Herzl
Utopias & Dystopias
Lost Horizon (1933) de James Hilton
Utopias & Dystopias
Brave New World (1932) de Aldous Huxley
Utopias & Dystopias
1984 (1949) de George Orwell
Utopias & Dystopias
A Revolta de Atlas (1957) de Ayn Rand
Utopias & Dystopias
Walden Two (1948) de B. F. Skinner
Utopias & Dystopias
The Time Machine (1895) de H. G. Wells
Utopias & Dystopias
Requiem (1966) de Anna Ahkmatova
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) de Dee Brown
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
The Gathering Storm (1948) de Winston S. Churchill
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (1947) de Anne Frank
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
O Diário De Anne Frank (1947) de Anne Frank
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
The Good Soldier Svejk (0) de Jaroslav Hašek
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Por Quem os Sinos Dobram (1940) de Ernest Hemingway
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Dispatches (1977) de Michael Herr
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) (1946) de John Hersey
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Mein Kampf (1925) de Adolf Hitler
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Darkness at Noon (1940) de Arthur Koestler
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) de John Reed
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) de Erich Maria Remarque
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (1919) de Siegfried Sassoon
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Cancer Ward (1968) de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Maus (1973) de Art Spiegelman
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Armenian atrocities, the murder of a nation (1975) de Arnold Joseph Toynbee
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968) de Mao Tse-Tung
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
Night (1956) de Elie Wiesel
War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) de Maya Angelou
Women Rise
The Second Sex (1953) de Simone de Beauvoir
Women Rise
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (1973) de Susan Brownmiller
Women Rise
Woman suffrage and politics; the inner story of the suffrage movement (1923) de Carrie Chapman Catt
Women Rise
The Feminine Mystique (1963) de Betty Friedan
Women Rise
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942) de Zora Neale Hurston
Women Rise
The Golden Notebook (1962) de Doris Lessing
Women Rise
Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (1970) de Robin Morgan
Women Rise
My Fight for Birth Control (1969) de Margaret Sanger
Women Rise
The Color Purple (1982) de Alice Walker
Women Rise
The Age of Innocence (1920) de Edith Wharton
Women Rise

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