Literature

 

1925

In 1925, Adolf Hitler published Volume I of Mein Kempf, a book that foreshadows many events in the 1930s.

 

 

The New Negro was published by Alain Locke in 1925. It was a hopeful look at the negroes in America.

 

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925. It depicts the dreaming and what people do to reach dreams in the high society of the East Coast through the eyes of Nick, a westerner.

 

 

 

In 1925, The Trial, by Franz Kafka was published. It is about a man who awakens one morning, and for unrevealed reasons, is arrested for an unspecified crime.

 

 

 

Manhattan Transfer is a novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It is considered to be one of his most important works. The book attacks vulgar consumerism and social indifference of Jazz Age urban life.

 

 

 

 

1926

Strange Interlude, written by Eugene O'Neill and published in 1926, was a look at 30 years in the life of a modern woman.

 

 

Ernest Hemingway, in 1926, published The Sun Also Rises. It is a novel about the life and values of the lost generation, a generation deeply scarred by World War I.

 

 

 

 

Volume II of Mein Kempf, by Adolf Hitler was published in 1926.

 

 

Winnie-the-Pooh appeared the first time in 1926. Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A.A. Milne.

 

 

 

These Old Shades, published in 1926, is a Georgian romance novel set around 1756 written by British novelist Georgette Heyer. It was an instant success, and established her as a writer.

 

 

 

1927

The Outlaw of Torn is a historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published as a five part serial in New Story Magazine from January to May, 1914. It was first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1927.

 

 

 

 

 

In 1927, Death Comes for the Archbishop was a novel written by Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. It is based on the careers of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy and Father Joseph Machebeuf.

 

 

 

 

 

The Big Four, published in 1927, is a novel written by Agatha Christie. It features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. Poirot must go up against a team of four supervillains. The undercover plans of those four mysterious, untouchable individuals greatly threaten the world's safety.

 

 

 

 

 

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally published in 1927, it contains stories published between 1921 and 1927.

 

 

 

1928

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Published in 1928, it is the eleventh in his series of books about the main character Tarzan.

 

 

 

 

In 1928, Mirror for Witches, a book about a witch's experiences, was published. It was written by Esther Forbes. The book was narrated from the point of view of a Puritan defending the actions against the witch.

 

 

 

 

All Quiet on the Western Front, published in 1928, is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front.

 

 

 

 

 

Felix Salten published Bambi, A Life In The Woods in 1928. Bambi is the name of the main character, a male deer beginning life as a fawn, then an adolescent spike, and finally a buck.

 

 

 

 

In 1928, The House at Pooh Corner was published. It is the second volume of stories about Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne. In this book of stories, Tigger, is introduced.

 

 

 

1929

In 1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner was published. It details the moral decay of the Old South.

 

 

 

A Farewell to Arms, published in 1929 by Ernest Hemingway, is one of the most important books from the post WWI era. It is the story of Lieutant Henry, who is forced to choose between love and duty in a world of duty and desire.

 

 

 

 

 

Tarzan and the Lost Empire, published in 1929, is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and is considered the twelfth in his series of books about Tarzan.

 

 

 

 

In 1929, Dodsworth, written by Sinclair Lewis, was published. It is about Samuel Dodsworth, who is an ambitious automobile designer who builds his fortunes in Zenith. He also succeeds in winning the hand of Fran Voelker, a beautiful socialite.

 

 

 

 

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