Books 1925 to 1939 Flashcards
(116 cards)
1
Q
The New World
A
Heruy Walda-Sellasse
[Ethiopia]
1925
2
Q
The Professor’s House
A
Willa Siebert Cather
[US]
1925
3
Q
The Artamonov Business
A
Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Peshkov)
[Russia]
1925
4
Q
The Trial
A
Franz Kafka
[Czechoslovakia]
1925
5
Q
The Counterfeiters
A
Andre Gide
[France]
1925
6
Q
The Great Gatsby
A
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald)
[US]
1925
7
Q
Mrs. Dalloway
A
Virginia Woolf
[England]
1925
8
Q
Chaka the Zulu
A
Thomas Mofolo
[Lesotho]
1925
9
Q
The Making of Americans
A
Gertrude Stein
[US]
1925
10
Q
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A
Agatha Christie
[England]
1926
11
Q
One, None and a Hundred Thousand
A
Luigi Pirandello
[Italy]
1926
[NPL 1934]
12
Q
Under Satan’s Sun
A
Georges Bernanos
[France]
1926
13
Q
The Good Soldier Svejk
A
Jaroslav Hasek
[Czechoslovakia]
1921-23
14
Q
Alberta and Jacob
A
Cora Sandel (Sara Fabricius)
[Norway]
1926
15
Q
The Castle
A
Franz Kafka
[Czechoslovakia]
1926
16
Q
Blindness
A
Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1926
17
Q
Blindness
A
Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1926
18
Q
The Sun Also Rises
A
Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1926
[NPL 1954]
19
Q
Amerika
A
Franz Kafka
[Czechoslovakia]
1927
20
Q
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
A
Arnold Zweig
[Poland]
1927
21
Q
Tarka the Otter
A
Henry Williamson
[England]
1927
22
Q
To the Lighthouse
A
Virginia Woolf
[England]
1927
23
Q
Remembrance of Things Past
In Search of Lost Time
A
Marcel Proust
[France]
1913-27
24
Q
Steppenwolf
A
Herman Hesse
[Germany]
1927
[NPL 1946]
25
Nadja
Andre Breton
[France]
1928
26
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
[US]
1928
27
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
[England]
1928
28
Some Prefer Nettles
Junichiro Tanizaki
[Japan]
1928
29
Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford
[England]
1928 [tetralogy finished]
30
The Well of Loeliness
(Marguerite) Radclyffe-Hall
[England]
1928
31
Lady Chatterly's Lover
(David Herbert) D.H. Lawrence
[England]
1928
32
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
[England]
1928
33
Story of the Eye
Lord Auch (Georges Bataille)
[France]
1928
34
Retreat Without Song
Shahan Shahnoor
[Turkey]
1929
35
Retreat Without Song
Shahan Shahnoor
[Turkey]
1929
36
The Holy Terrors (Children of the Game) (Les Enfants Terribles)
Jean Cocteau
[France]
1929
37
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin
[Poland]
1929
38
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin
[Poland]
1929
39
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
[Germany]
1929
40
The Time of Indifference
Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
[Italy]
1907
41
Living
Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1929
42
I Thought of Daisy
Edmund Wilson
[US]
1929
43
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1929
[NPL 1954]
44
Passing
Nella Larsen
[US]
1929
45
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
Thomas Wolfe
[US]
1929
46
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
[US]
1930
47
Her Privates We (The Middle Parts of Fortune)
Private 19022 (Frederic Manning)
[England]
1930
48
The Apes of God
Wyndham Lewis
[Canada]
1930
49
Monica
(John) Saunders Lewis
[Wales]
1930
50
Insatiability
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
[Poland]
1930
51
The Waves
Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen)
[England]
1931
52
The Waves
Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen)
[England]
1931
53
To the North
Elizabeth Bowen
[Ireland]
1932
54
The Thin Man
Dachiell Hammett
[US]
1932
55
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinande Celine (Destouches)
[England]
1932
56
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Miroslav Krleza
[Crotia]
1932
57
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
[Ukraine]
1932
58
The Forbidden Realm
J.J. Slauerhoff
[England]
1932
59
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
[England]
1932
60
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
[England]
1932
61
Vipers' Tangle
Francois Mauriac
[France]
1932
[NPL 1952]
62
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
[Aust.-Hungary]
1933
63
Cheese
Willem Elsschot (Alfons-Jozef de Ridder)
[Belgium]
1933
64
Man's Fate
Andre Malraux
[France]
1933
65
A Day Off
(Margaret) Storm Jameson
[England]
1933
66
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Vera Brittain
[England]
1933
67
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
[US]
1933
68
Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy L. Sayers
[England]
1933
69
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West (Nathan Weinstein)
[US]
1933
70
Call it Sleep
Henry Roth
[Ukraine]
1934
71
The Street of Crocodiles
Bruno Schulz
[Austria.-Hungary]
1934
72
Thank You, Jeeves
(Sir Pelham Grenville) P.J. Wodehouse
[England]
1934
73
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald)
[US]
1934
74
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
[US]
1934
75
The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain
[US]
1934
76
On the Heights of Despair
Emil Cioran
[Romania]
1934
77
The Bells of Basel
Louis Aragon
[France]
1934
78
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers
[England]
1934
79
Auto-da-Fe
Elias Canetti
[Bulgaria]
1935
80
Auto-da-Fe
Elias Canetti
[Bulgaria]
1935
81
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Horace McCoy
[US]
1935
82
The Last of Mr. Norris (Mr. Norris Changes Trains)
Christopher Isherwood
[England]
1935
83
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand
[Pakistan]
1935
84
Independent People
Halldor Laxness
[Iceland]
1935
[NPL 1955]
85
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
[US]
1936
86
At the Mountains of Madness
(Howard Phillips) H.P. Lovecraft
[US]
1936
87
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
[US]
1936
[NPL 1949]
88
War with the Newts
Karel Capek
[Czech Republic]
1936
89
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1936
90
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
[US]
1936
[PP 1937]
91
The Thinking Reed
Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Fairfield)
[England]
1936
92
Eyeless in Gaza
Aldous Huxley
[England]
1936
93
Summer Will Show
Sylvia Townsend Warner
[England]
1936
94
Rickshaw Boy
Lao She (Shu Qingchun)
[China]
1936
95
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
[Denmark]
1937
96
In Parenthesis: Impressions, in a fictitious form, of life on the Western Front
David Jones
[England]
1937
97
Ferdydurke
Witold Gombrowicz
[Poland]
1937
98
The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat
[Iran]
1937
99
The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
[South Africa]
1937
100
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
[US]
1937
101
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
[US]
1937
[NPL 1962]
102
Murphy
Samuel Beckett
[Ireland]
1938
[NPL 1969]
103
U.S.A. [The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money]
John Dos Passos
[US]
1938
104
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
[England]
1938
105
Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
[England]
1938
106
Alamut
Vladimir Bartol
[Italy]
1938
107
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
[England]
1938
108
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
[France]
1938
[NPL 1964 declined]
109
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson
[England]
1938
110
On the Edge of Reason
Miroslav Krleza
[Croatia]
1938
111
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
[US]
1939
112
Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
[England]
1939
[Basis for Cabaret]
113
The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
[US]
1939
[PP 1940]
[NPL 1962]
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114
Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolen Rees William)
[Dominica]
1939
115
At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nuallain)
[Ireland]
1939
116
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
[Ireland]
1939
