1930s

Absalom, Absalom!

Novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936. Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.

Enemies of Promise

Critical and autobiographical work written by Cyril Connolly first published in 1938.It comprises three parts, the first dedicated to Connolly’s observations about English literature and the English literary world of his time, the second a list of adverse elements that affect the ability to be a good writer and the last an account of Connolly’s early life

The Big Sleep

Hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe

The Good Earth

Historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century

Madeline

Media franchise that originated as a series of children’s books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian-American author

Stanley Fish

American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual