1929


The Sound and the Fury
A Room of One’s Own
A Farewell to Arms
Water for Elephants
All Quiet on the Western Front
Letters to a Young Poet
A High Wind in Jamaica
Passing
Look Homeward, Angel
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Goodbye to All That
The Luzhin Defense
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
The Holy Terrors
Aleister Crowley
Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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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