Home›Works›Composition Year›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sComposition year places a literary work in the year it was actually written, which can differ sharply from when it was published. Wikipedia notes Pride and Prejudice was "written when she was aged 20-21," roughly 1796, though it was not published until 1813. Browsing by composition year shows how long a finished work can wait before reaching readers.1940sConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)1940sFilter Results27 entriesAuthorAllAdolfo Bioy Casares (1)Albert Camus (3)Alejo Carpentier (1)Alexander Fadeyev (1)Anne Frank (1)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1)Arthur Miller (1)Bertolt Brecht (1)Evelyn Waugh (1)George Orwell (2)H. P. Lovecraft (1)Harry Bates (1)Jean-Paul Sartre (1)Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel (1)Jorge Luis Borges (1)Molière (1)Samuel Beckett (1)Shirley Jackson (1)Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1)Simone de Beauvoir (1)Tennessee Williams (1)Theodore Sturgeon (1)Vladimir Nabokov (1)Yukio Mishima (1)GenreAllAutobiography (1)Children Literature (1)Comedy (1)Drama (2)Fable (1)Fantasy (1)Historical Fiction (2)Horror Fiction (1)Magic Realism (1)Memoir (1)Nonfiction Prose (2)Satire (2)Science Fantasy (1)Science Fiction (2)Short Fiction (2)Southern Gothic (1)The Novel (8)Tragedy (1)Tragicomedy (1)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (2)AudienceAllChildren's (4)General (23)Original LanguageAllDutch (1)English (12)French (8)German (1)Hebrew (1)Japanese (1)Romanian (1)Russian (1)Spanish (4)AwardAllBuenos Aires Municipal Prize for Literature (1)Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame (1)Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2)Retro Hugo Award for Best Novella (3)Country of OriginAllArgentina (2)Chile (1)Costa Rica (1)France (7)Germany (1)Israel (1)Japan (1)Netherlands (1)Russia (1)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (8)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 27A Streetcar Named Desire1940sAnimal Farm1940sCocorí1940sConfessions of a Mask1940sDeath of a Salesman1940sFarewell to the Master1940sFicciones1940sKilldozer!1940sMother Courage and Her Children1940sNineteen Eighty-Four1940sNo Exit1940sOnly Yesterday (novel)1940sSpeak, Memory1940sTartuffe1940sThe Diary of a Young Girl1940sThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath1940sThe Invention of Morel1940sThe Kingdom of This World1940sThe Little Prince1940sThe Lottery (short story)1940sThe Loved One1940sThe Myth of Sisyphus1940sThe Plague1940sThe Second Sex1940sThe Stranger1940sThe Young Guard1940sWaiting for Godot1940sConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 541 connections.SourcesEncyclopaedia Britannicatier 1Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Contains: The Castle of OtrantoContains: Frankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusContains: Wilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipContains: The Murders in the Rue MorgueView the SourceMrs Dalloway (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Contains: Mrs DallowayView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.