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1920s reviews

Simon

Not a recommended reading list, just a convenient list in one place of all my reviews of books about, or from, the 1920s. Mostly fiction, with links off to history reviews. The Twenties by Alan Jenkins (1974) First World War memoirs Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920) In Our Time by Ernest...

novel short stories play agatha christie john buchan d.h. lawrence ernest hemingway arthur conan doyle margery allingham mikhail sholokhov men without women crome yellow aldous huxley the square egg and other sketches p.g. wodehouse queen lucia the future of an illusion evelyn waugh we the green hat women in love a hunger artist the white guard berlin alexanderplatz noel coward our betters gentlemen prefer blondes: the intimate diary of a professional lady mornings in mexico the fox the crime at black dudley jaroslav hašek summer lightning warsaw 1920 andré breton the three hostages little caesar the mystery of the blue train heart of a dog the trial the big four dorothy l. sayers clouds of witness debits and credits easy virtue alan jenkins e.f. benson george grosz robert graves carry on gentlemen prefer blondes volume three: the glorious licking rudyard kipling mikhail bulgakov the dancing floor graham greene the sun also rises somme and ancre john mcnab the twenties the captain's doll lenin saki storm of steel the constant wife the good soldier svejk hay fever red cavalry jacob's room tales from the don the woman who rode away and other stories the secret of chimneys ashenden whose body? the great gatsby the inimitable jeeves lucia in london the plumed serpent private lives all quiet on the western front ashenden: or the british agent virginia woolf erich maria remarque hermann hesse w.r. burnett decline and fall epilogue to volume one the diamond as big as the ritz my man jeeves der steppenwolf the dain curse the beautiful and damned michael arlen the castle sigmund freud investigations of a dog volume four: the glorious licking continues goodbye to all that a small yes and a big no the murder of roger ackroyd the circle in our time ernst jünger edmund blunden an autobiographical study undertones of war the vortex bernice bobs her hair volume two: at the front the question of lay analysis kangaroo miss mapp leave it to psmith the murder on the links lady chatterley's lover dashiell hammett the maracot deep max brod’s postscript to the trial the seven dials mystery evgeny zamyatin the sacred flame alfred döblin the case-book of sherlock holmes the mysterious affair at styles nadja point counter point jeeves fallen angels to the lighthouse the ladybird max brod this side of paradise william somerset maugham the painted veil the secret adversary the burrow huntingtower a room of one's own red harvest frederic manning aaron's rod the life of jaroslav hašek the man within isaac babel st mawr orlando: a biography f.scott fitzgerald anita loos franz kafka siddhārtha antic hay the virgin and the gipsy mrs dalloway those barren leaves the middle parts of fortune volume one: behind the lines

Island by Aldous Huxley (1962)

Simon

‘What charming young people!’ (The protagonist of ‘Island’, cynical journalist Will Farnaby, commenting on the lovely young Palanese couple, Radhu and Ranga, page 98) ‘Underdeveloped countries… don’t have to follow your example. They’re still free to take the road we’ve taken – the road of applied...

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