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1944
 
    
The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York       
1945
 
    
English author Nancy Mitford has her first success with the novel The Pursuit of Love       
1945
 
    
Evelyn Waugh publishes Brideshead Revisited, a novel about a rich Catholic family in England between the wars       
1945
 
    
In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin       
1946
 
    
Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels       
1947
 
    
English author and alcoholic Malcolm Lowry publishes an autobiographical novel, Under the Volcano       
1947
 
    
J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection       
1948
 
    
Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play       
1949
 
    
Enid Blyton introduces her most successful character, Noddy, a small boy who can't avoid nodding when he speaks       
1949
 
    
George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel set in a terrifying totalitarian state of the future, watched over by Big Brother