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Literature Mostly From the First Half of the 20th Century

The books on this list are in chronological order by date of publication and span the years 1872- 1955. The challenge highlights the work of European, particularly German, authors. I have provided some checkpoint dates below for those who might be interested.
1876: Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
1892: Ibsen - The Master Builder
1895: Fontane - Effi Briest
1901: Chekhov - Three Sisters
1905: Wharton - The House of Mirth
1915: Kafka - Metamorphosis
1918: Spengler: The Decline of the West, part 1
1922: Eliot - The Waste Land
1925: Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
1929: Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
1933: Malraux - Man's Fate
1938: Sartre - Nausea
1939: Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
1942: Camus - The Stranger
1943: Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
1947: Mann - Doctor Faustus
1949: Orwell - 1984
1952: Beckett - Waiting for Godot
1955: Nabokov - Lolita
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The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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Before Daybreak (Gerhart Hauptmann)
Before Daybreak (Gerhart Hauptmann)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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The Master Builder (Henrik Ibsen)
The Master Builder (Henrik Ibsen)
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Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane)
Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane)
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The Seagull (Anton Chekhov)
The Seagull (Anton Chekhov)
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The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud)
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Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
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Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
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Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)
Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)
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The Immoralist (André Gide)
The Immoralist (André Gide)
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The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
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Tonio Kröger (Thomas Mann)
Tonio Kröger (Thomas Mann)
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Professor Unrat/The Blue Angel (Heinrich Mann)
Professor Unrat/The Blue Angel (Heinrich Mann)
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The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
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The Man of Property (John Galsworthy)
The Man of Property (John Galsworthy)
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New Poems (Rainer Maria Rilke)
New Poems (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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The Little Town (Heinrich Mann)
The Little Town (Heinrich Mann)
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Strait Is the Gate (André Gide)
Strait Is the Gate (André Gide)
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Royal Highness (Thomas Mann)
Royal Highness (Thomas Mann)
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Howards End (E.M. Forster)
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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The Play of Everyman: Based on the Old English Morality Play (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
The Play of Everyman: Based on the Old English Morality Play (Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
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Atlantis (Gerhart Hauptmann)
Atlantis (Gerhart Hauptmann)
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Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, Trans. David Luke)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, Trans. David Luke)
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Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
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Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
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The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)
The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)
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The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
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Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Thomas Mann)
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Thomas Mann)
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The Loyal Subject (Heinrich Mann)
The Loyal Subject (Heinrich Mann)
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The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality (Oswald Spengler)
The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality (Oswald Spengler)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
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Drums in the Night (Bertolt Brecht)
Drums in the Night (Bertolt Brecht)
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Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Sonnets to Orpheus (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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