Can you name the notable literary works that did NOT appear in the year specified?

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Notable Literary WorksWork NOT
appearing
that year
Year
Dickens, Bleak House;
Roget, Thesaurus of Words and Phrases;
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin;
Verne, Around The World In 80 Days
1852
Bartlett, Familiar Quotations;
Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha;
Stevenson, Treasure Island;
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
1855
Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans;
Darwin, On the Origin of Species;
Mill, On Liberty;
Tennyson, Idylls of the King
1859
Alcott, Little Women;
Ibsen, Peer Gynt;
Marx, Das Kapital [Capital];
Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1867
Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese;
Collodi, Pinocchio;
Wallace, Ben-Hur;
Zola, Nana
1880
Barrie, Peter Pan;
Kipling, The Jungle Book;
Shaw, Arms and the Man;
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
1894
Cather, My Antonia;
Crane, The Red Badge of Courage;
Hardy, Jude the Obscure;
Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
1895
Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz;
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment;
Dreiser, Sister Carrie;
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
1900
Chekhov, Three Sisters;
Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles;
Mitchell, Gone With the Wind;
Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1902
Carroll, Through the Looking Glass;
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks;
Keller, The Story of My Life;
London, The Call of the Wild
1903
Lewis, Main Street;
Lofting, The Story of Dr. Doolittle;
Strindberg, Miss Julie;
Wharton, The Age of Innocence
1920
Notable Literary WorksWork NOT
appearing
that year
Year
de Beauvoir, The Second Sex;
Eliot, The Waste Land;
Hesse, Siddhartha;
Joyce, Ulysses
1922
Conrad, Lord Jim;
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby;
Hitler, Mein Kampf [My Struggle];
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
1925
Camus, The Stranger;
Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover;
Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa;
Oxford English Dictionary (completed)
1928
Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury;
Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country;
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front;
Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
1929
Grahame, The Wind in the Willows;
Graves, I, Claudius;
Miller, Tropic of Cancer;
Travers, Mary Poppins
1934
Beckett, Waiting for Godot;
Christie, Death on the Nile;
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men;
Tolkein, The Hobbit
1937
Forster, A Passage to India;
Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls;
McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter;
Wright, Native Son
1940
Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children;
Coward, Blithe Spirit;
O'Neill, A Long Day's Journey Into Night;
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
1941
Kafka, The Metamorphosis;
Orwell, Animal Farm;
Waugh, Brideshead Revisited;
Williams, The Glass Menagerie
1945
Hersey, Hiroshima;
Huxley, Brave New World;
Spock, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care;
Warren, All The King's Men
1946
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Literary Contemporaries 1850-1950 Quiz

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