1924


The Magic Mountain
A Passage to India
So Big
The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1)
We
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
La vorágine
Naomi
The Most Dangerous Game
The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
The Constant Nymph
The Home-Maker
The Rector's Daughter
The Green Hat
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
Sigmund Freud
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world. ...more
Sigmund Freud, General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In 1924–1929, sentences were determined by joint administrative and economic consideration. Beginning in 1924, because of national unemployment, the courts reduced the number of verdicts which sentenced prisoners to corrective labor while they continued to live at home and increased short-term prison sentences. These cases involved only nonpolitical offenders, of course. As a result, prisons were overcrowded with short-termers serving sentences of up to six months, and not enough use was being m ...more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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