1944 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

  • Samuel Hopkins Adams – Canal Town
  • Jorge Amado – Terras do Sem Fim (The Violent Land)
  • Saul Bellow – Dangling Man
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Ficciones
  • Christianna Brand – Green for Danger
  • John Dickson Carr
    • Till Death Do Us Part
    • He Wouldn't Kill Patience (as by Carter Dickson)
  • Joyce Cary – The Horse's Mouth
  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Guignol's Band
  • Agatha Christie
    • Death Comes as the End
    • Towards Zero
    • Absent in the Spring (as by Mary Westmacott)
  • Edmund Crispin – The Case of the Gilded Fly
  • Eric Linklater – The Wind on the Moon
  • A. J. Cronin – The Green Years
  • Esther Forbes – Johnny Tremain
  • Jean Genet – Notre Dame des Fleurs
  • John Hersey – A Bell for Adano
  • Georgette Heyer – Friday's Child
  • Charles R. Jackson – The Lost Weekend
  • Pär Lagerkvist – Dvärgen
  • Astrid Lindgren – Pippi Longstocking
  • H. P. Lovecraft – Marginalia
  • W. Somerset Maugham – The Razor's Edge
  • Oscar Micheaux – The Case of Mrs. Wingate
  • Alberto Moravia – Agostino (Two Adolescents)
  • Gunnar Myrdal – An American Dilemma
  • Feodor Rojankovsky – The Tall Book of Nursery Tales
  • Anya Seton – Dragonwyck
  • Clark Ashton Smith – Lost Worlds
  • Rex Stout – Not Quite Dead Enough
  • Phoebe Atwood Taylor – Dead Ernest (as by Alice Tilton)
  • Donald Wandrei – The Eye and the Finger
  • Martin Wickremasinghe – Gamperaliya
  • Henry S. Whitehead – Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales

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