1938


Rebecca
Rules of Civility
Nausea
Homage to Catalonia
Anthem
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Our Town
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Brighton Rock
The Sword in the Stone (Once and Future King, #1)
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
The Yearling
I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithPrisoner of Night and Fog by Anne BlankmanA Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle   CooperConspiracy of Blood and Smoke by Anne BlankmanThe FitzOsbornes in Exile by Michelle   Cooper
YA Fiction set in the 1930s
80 books — 60 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsOur Town by Thornton WilderThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteMr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Best Books 1938
85 books — 37 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyOut of the Silent Planet by C.S. LewisAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftLost Horizon by James HiltonLast and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Classic Science Fiction - 1930-1939
102 books — 116 voters
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienMary Poppins by P.L. TraversThe Sword in the Stone by T.H. WhiteMary Poppins Comes Back by P.L. TraversMr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Children's Fantasy of the 1930s
26 books — 21 voters


Colin McArthur
By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues of the great European core cultures through the mode of Romanticism and their control of the means of (ideological) production. However, the brute fact of subsequent uneven economic development compelled the Scots to bring into collision with that historically assigned identity a new-fashioned identity more appropriate to a dynamic modern nation. Great national momen ...more
Colin McArthur, Popular Culture and Social Relations

Svetlana Chmakova
All right, let's consider some history here. I see a number of girls are wearing pants. This used to be frowned upon. In 1938, Helen Hulick was jailed for wearing slacks -- put behind bars. Do you think society should have the right to jail or punish you for what you choose to wear? ...more
Svetlana Chmakova, Brave

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