Books 1925 to 1939 Flashcards

1
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The New World

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Heruy Walda-Sellasse
[Ethiopia]
1925

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The Professor’s House

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Willa Siebert Cather
[US]
1925

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3
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The Artamonov Business

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Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Peshkov)
[Russia]
1925

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The Trial

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Franz Kafka
[Czechoslovakia]
1925

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5
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The Counterfeiters

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Andre Gide
[France]
1925

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6
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The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald)
[US]
1925

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Mrs. Dalloway

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Virginia Woolf
[England]
1925

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8
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Chaka the Zulu

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Thomas Mofolo
[Lesotho]
1925

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9
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The Making of Americans

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Gertrude Stein
[US]
1925

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10
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Agatha Christie
[England]
1926

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11
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One, None and a Hundred Thousand

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Luigi Pirandello
[Italy]
1926
[NPL 1934]

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12
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Under Satan’s Sun

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Georges Bernanos
[France]
1926

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13
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The Good Soldier Svejk

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Jaroslav Hasek
[Czechoslovakia]
1921-23

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14
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Alberta and Jacob

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Cora Sandel (Sara Fabricius)
[Norway]
1926

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15
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The Castle

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Franz Kafka
[Czechoslovakia]
1926

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16
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Blindness

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Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1926

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17
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Blindness

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Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1926

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18
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The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1926
[NPL 1954]

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19
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Amerika

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Franz Kafka
[Czechoslovakia]
1927

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20
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa

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Arnold Zweig
[Poland]
1927

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21
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Tarka the Otter

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Henry Williamson
[England]
1927

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22
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To the Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf
[England]
1927

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23
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Remembrance of Things Past

In Search of Lost Time

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Marcel Proust
[France]
1913-27

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24
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Steppenwolf

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Herman Hesse
[Germany]
1927
[NPL 1946]

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25
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Nadja

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Andre Breton
[France]
1928

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26
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Quicksand

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Nella Larsen
[US]
1928

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27
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Decline and Fall

A

Evelyn Waugh
[England]
1928

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28
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Some Prefer Nettles

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Junichiro Tanizaki
[Japan]
1928

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29
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Parade’s End

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Ford Madox Ford
[England]
1928 [tetralogy finished]

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30
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The Well of Loeliness

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(Marguerite) Radclyffe-Hall
[England]
1928

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31
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Lady Chatterly’s Lover

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(David Herbert) D.H. Lawrence
[England]
1928

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32
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Orlando

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Virginia Woolf
[England]
1928

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33
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Story of the Eye

A

Lord Auch (Georges Bataille)
[France]
1928

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34
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Retreat Without Song

A

Shahan Shahnoor
[Turkey]
1929

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35
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Retreat Without Song

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Shahan Shahnoor
[Turkey]
1929

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36
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The Holy Terrors (Children of the Game) (Les Enfants Terribles)

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Jean Cocteau
[France]
1929

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37
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Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Alfred Doblin
[Poland]
1929

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38
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Berlin Alexanderplatz

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Alfred Doblin
[Poland]
1929

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39
Q

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Erich Maria Remarque
[Germany]
1929

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40
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The Time of Indifference

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Alberto Moravia (Alberto Pincherle)
[Italy]
1907

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41
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Living

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Henry Green (Henry Yorke)
[England]
1929

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42
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I Thought of Daisy

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Edmund Wilson
[US]
1929

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43
Q

A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway
[US]
1929
[NPL 1954]

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44
Q

Passing

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Nella Larsen
[US]
1929

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45
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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life

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Thomas Wolfe
[US]
1929

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46
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The Maltese Falcon

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Dashiell Hammett
[US]
1930

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47
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Her Privates We (The Middle Parts of Fortune)

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Private 19022 (Frederic Manning)
[England]
1930

48
Q

The Apes of God

A

Wyndham Lewis
[Canada]
1930

49
Q

Monica

A

(John) Saunders Lewis
[Wales]
1930

50
Q

Insatiability

A

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
[Poland]
1930

51
Q

The Waves

A

Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen)
[England]
1931

52
Q

The Waves

A

Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen)
[England]
1931

53
Q

To the North

A

Elizabeth Bowen
[Ireland]
1932

54
Q

The Thin Man

A

Dachiell Hammett
[US]
1932

55
Q

Journey to the End of the Night

A

Louis-Ferdinande Celine (Destouches)
[England]
1932

56
Q

The Return of Philip Latinowicz

A

Miroslav Krleza
[Crotia]
1932

57
Q

The Radetzky March

A

Joseph Roth
[Ukraine]
1932

58
Q

The Forbidden Realm

A

J.J. Slauerhoff
[England]
1932

59
Q

Cold Comfort Farm

A

Stella Gibbons
[England]
1932

60
Q

Brave New World

A

Aldous Huxley
[England]
1932

61
Q

Vipers’ Tangle

A

Francois Mauriac
[France]
1932
[NPL 1952]

62
Q

The Man Without Qualities

A

Robert Musil
[Aust.-Hungary]
1933

63
Q

Cheese

A

Willem Elsschot (Alfons-Jozef de Ridder)
[Belgium]
1933

64
Q

Man’s Fate

A

Andre Malraux
[France]
1933

65
Q

A Day Off

A

(Margaret) Storm Jameson
[England]
1933

66
Q

Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

A

Vera Brittain
[England]
1933

67
Q

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

A

Gertrude Stein
[US]
1933

68
Q

Murder Must Advertise

A

Dorothy L. Sayers
[England]
1933

69
Q

Miss Lonelyhearts

A

Nathanael West (Nathan Weinstein)
[US]
1933

70
Q

Call it Sleep

A

Henry Roth
[Ukraine]
1934

71
Q

The Street of Crocodiles

A

Bruno Schulz
[Austria.-Hungary]
1934

72
Q

Thank You, Jeeves

A

(Sir Pelham Grenville) P.J. Wodehouse
[England]
1934

73
Q

Tender is the Night

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald)
[US]
1934

74
Q

Tropic of Cancer

A

Henry Miller
[US]
1934

75
Q

The Postman Always Rings Twice

A

James M. Cain
[US]
1934

76
Q

On the Heights of Despair

A

Emil Cioran
[Romania]
1934

77
Q

The Bells of Basel

A

Louis Aragon
[France]
1934

78
Q

The Nine Tailors

A

Dorothy L. Sayers
[England]
1934

79
Q

Auto-da-Fe

A

Elias Canetti
[Bulgaria]
1935

80
Q

Auto-da-Fe

A

Elias Canetti
[Bulgaria]
1935

81
Q

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

A

Horace McCoy
[US]
1935

82
Q

The Last of Mr. Norris (Mr. Norris Changes Trains)

A

Christopher Isherwood
[England]
1935

83
Q

Untouchable

A

Mulk Raj Anand
[Pakistan]
1935

84
Q

Independent People

A

Halldor Laxness
[Iceland]
1935
[NPL 1955]

85
Q

Nightwood

A

Djuna Barnes
[US]
1936

86
Q

At the Mountains of Madness

A

(Howard Phillips) H.P. Lovecraft
[US]
1936

87
Q

Absalom, Absalom!

A

William Faulkner
[US]
1936
[NPL 1949]

88
Q

War with the Newts

A

Karel Capek
[Czech Republic]
1936

89
Q

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

A

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
[India]
1936

90
Q

Gone with the Wind

A

Margaret Mitchell
[US]
1936
[PP 1937]

91
Q

The Thinking Reed

A

Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Fairfield)
[England]
1936

92
Q

Eyeless in Gaza

A

Aldous Huxley
[England]
1936

93
Q

Summer Will Show

A

Sylvia Townsend Warner
[England]
1936

94
Q

Rickshaw Boy

A

Lao She (Shu Qingchun)
[China]
1936

95
Q

Out of Africa

A

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
[Denmark]
1937

96
Q

In Parenthesis: Impressions, in a fictitious form, of life on the Western Front

A

David Jones
[England]
1937

97
Q

Ferdydurke

A

Witold Gombrowicz
[Poland]
1937

98
Q

The Blind Owl

A

Sadegh Hedayat
[Iran]
1937

99
Q

The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again

A

J.R.R. Tolkien
[South Africa]
1937

100
Q

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A

Zora Neale Hurston
[US]
1937

101
Q

Of Mice and Men

A

John Steinbeck
[US]
1937
[NPL 1962]

102
Q

Murphy

A

Samuel Beckett
[Ireland]
1938
[NPL 1969]

103
Q

U.S.A. [The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money]

A

John Dos Passos
[US]
1938

104
Q

Brighton Rock

A

Graham Greene
[England]
1938

105
Q

Cause for Alarm

A

Eric Ambler
[England]
1938

106
Q

Alamut

A

Vladimir Bartol
[Italy]
1938

107
Q

Rebecca

A

Daphne du Maurier
[England]
1938

108
Q

Nausea

A

Jean-Paul Sartre
[France]
1938
[NPL 1964 declined]

109
Q

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

A

Winifred Watson
[England]
1938

110
Q

On the Edge of Reason

A

Miroslav Krleza
[Croatia]
1938

111
Q

The Big Sleep

A

Raymond Chandler
[US]
1939

112
Q

Goodbye to Berlin

A

Christopher Isherwood
[England]
1939
[Basis for Cabaret]

113
Q

The Grapes of Wrath

A
John Steinbeck
[US]
1939
[PP 1940]
[NPL 1962]
114
Q

Good Morning, Midnight

A

Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolen Rees William)
[Dominica]
1939

115
Q

At Swim-Two-Birds

A

Flann O’Brien (Brian O’Nuallain)
[Ireland]
1939

116
Q

Finnegans Wake

A

James Joyce
[Ireland]
1939