The Man Without Qualities
Unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil
1930s
Independent People
Epic novel by Nobel laureate Halldr Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935; literally the title means “Self-standing [i.e. self-reliant] folk”. It deals with the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 20th century, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving on isolated crofts in an inhospitable landscape
An Infamous Army
Novel by Georgette Heyer
Brave New World
Dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two television presentations.
Cold Comfort Farm
Comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
Brazilian Adventure
Book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle
Tender Is the Night
Fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald
Light in August
1932 novel by the Southern American author William Faulkner