1933


Down and Out in Paris and London
In Praise of Shadows
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Lost Horizon
The Red Pony
Miss Lonelyhearts
Man's Fate
The Street of Crocodiles
Testament of Youth
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book)
Residence on Earth
The Engagement
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
907 books — 1,257 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienLost Horizon by James HiltonMary Poppins by P.L. TraversAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. White
Best Fantasy of the 30s
58 books — 70 voters

Robert Byron
The murderers are supposed to have been Jewish revisionists, an extreme party that want to be rid of the English and set up a Jewish state. I don't know how long they think the Arabs would suffer a single Jew to exist once the English went." Jerusalem, Palestine, 7 September 1933 ...more
Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana

A man who restricts the freedom of his mistress or wife, by any prohibition, rings the death knell of his "eternal love" in advance, which was not strong enough to pass beyond the limits of his own personal egotism. In most cases, this jealous selfishness first flatters young women; but her ideal will be trampled on as soon as she admires his insane fear of his own impotent jealousy. ...more
Pierre de Lasenic, Sexual Mysteries: Oriental Love & Sexual Magic

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