Tag Archives: 1920s fiction

Unnatural Death – Dorothy L. Sayers

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Ela

(Hodder e-book 2003, originally published 1927) Lord Peter Wimsey has, by the time this book opens, already gained a reputation as an amateur sleuth – two characters each refer to events following on from Whose Body? and Clouds of Witness. … Continue reading →

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The Layton Court Mystery – Anthony Berkeley

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Ela

(The Langtail Press e-book 2010, originally published in 1925) Like my introduction to Cyril Hare, I originally came across the work of Anthony Berkeley in an anthology, and later in a joint novel produced by members of the Detection Club, … Continue reading →

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The Red House Mystery – A. A. Milne

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Ela

(Vintage 2009, originally published 1922) It’s rather a surprise to realise that Milne, now known best for his Winnie-the-Pooh books, poetry for children and dramatization of The Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall, wrote a detective novel. In … Continue reading →

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Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Ela

(Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics 2001, originally published 1922) George F. Babbitt is a conventional man, a real estate agent in partnership with his father-in-law, living in the American city of Zenith with his wife, Myra, and children Verona, Ted … Continue reading →

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Discussion – books by Dornford Yates

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Ela

I’ve often tried to reason out why I enjoy Dornford Yates’s books so much, since there are things about them which I really don’t approve (Germanophobia, anti-Semitism, appalling attitudes towards the working classes, and so on) – “the school of … Continue reading →

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Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Ela

This is one of Huxley’s early novels, published after Crome Yellow, and which takes as its subject the fevered neurotics of the 1920s, which he surveys with a mordant eye. Theodore Gumbril, bored pedagogue, is sitting in chapel one day, … Continue reading →

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