The Little Prince
1943 · 96 pages
Crash-landed in the Sahara, a pilot meets a boy from a tiny planet who worries about his rose. Saint-Exupéry writes for children and lands hardest on adults who have stopped looking properly.
★ 8.6
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1943
Showing 43 works across all media from 1943
Being and Nothingness · 1943
Broadway Boogie Woogie
1943 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Mondrian broke his own grid into blinking squares after moving to New York, where he loved the traffic and the jazz.
★ 7.7
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1943
Churchill tried to stop it in production and then to bar it from export, convinced it made the British Army look ridiculous: Powell and Pressburger made it anyway.
★ 7.1
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · 1943
Love in a Fallen City
1943 · 321 pages
Bai Liusu, a divorcee her Shanghai family treats as a disgrace, follows a rich bachelor to Hong Kong. Chang writes their courtship as cold accounting until the Japanese bombardment reaches the city.
★ 6.8
Freedom From Want
1943 · Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge
Rockwell painted it as one of the Four Freedoms Roosevelt named, and it has been parodied more than almost any American picture.
★ 6.7
The Glass Bead Game
1943 · 558 pages
Centuries from now, scholars in the cloistered province of Castalia play a game fusing music, mathematics, and all learning. Joseph Knecht rises to master it, then asks what the world outside is owed.
★ 6.5
Gravity and Grace
1943 · 236 pages
Weil held that the soul falls by a law as fixed as gravity and that grace enters only a void, which is why affliction, stripping everything away, can open a person to God.
★ 6.5
I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.
The Black Man Speaks · 1943
Stormy Weather (Lena Horne)
1943
Arlen and Koehler wrote it for the Cotton Club in 1933; a decade later Horne made it hers on film.
★ 6.2
The Fountainhead
1943 · 736 pages
Howard Roark would rather break rock in a quarry than compromise a design, and when his housing project is altered he dynamites it. American individualism has had no more seductive hero.
★ 5.7
The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.
McNabb v. United States · 1943
★ 4.4