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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 22 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.20 — 766,795 ratings — published 1934
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,361 ratings — published 1999
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,941 ratings — published 1934
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.76 — 50,742 ratings — published 1934
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.76 — 153,740 ratings — published 1934
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.24 — 75,243 ratings — published 1934
The Thin Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.89 — 39,424 ratings — published 1934
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,892 ratings — published 1934
Appointment in Samarra (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,676 ratings — published 1934
Cigars of the Pharaoh (Tintin #4)
by (shelved 6 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,823 ratings — published 1934
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,881 ratings — published 1934
A Handful of Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,784 ratings — published 1934
Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.12 — 14,926 ratings — published 1934
Lust for Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.28 — 32,525 ratings — published 1934
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,699 ratings — published 1934
Voyage in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,400 ratings — published 1934
The White Priory Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.46 — 1,245 ratings — published 1934
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.79 — 17,540 ratings — published 1934
Wild Strawberries (Barsetshire, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,159 ratings — published 1934
Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,120 ratings — published 1934
The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,981 ratings — published 1934
Now in November (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,410 ratings — published 1934
São Bernardo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,218 ratings — published 1934
More Pricks Than Kicks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,108 ratings — published 1934
For Two Thousand Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,999 ratings — published 1934
Parker Pyne Investigates (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,077 ratings — published 1934
Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.84 — 52,083 ratings — published 1935
Children and Fire (Burgdorf Cycle #4)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,706 ratings — published 2011
Seven Gothic Tales (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,839 ratings — published 1934
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,278 ratings — published 1934
Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 4.29 — 32,991 ratings — published 1934
Call It Sleep (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as 1934)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,120 ratings — published 1934
Weekend at Thrackley (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.67 — 863 ratings — published 1934
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,160 ratings — published 2006
On the Heights of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,769 ratings — published 1934
Becoming a Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,382 ratings — published 1934
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.54 — 198 ratings — published 1934
Ah, Wilderness! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.61 — 845 ratings — published 1934
Viaje a la aldea del crimen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.03 — 207 ratings — published 1935
Fiebre romana / Almas rezagadas / Tras Holbein (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 2010
Every Life Treasured (Brave Author Novella Collections)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.65 — 63 ratings — published 2025
The Eight of Swords (Dr. Gideon Fell, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.44 — 592 ratings — published 1934
Tales of the Grotesque: A Collection of Uneasy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.14 — 74 ratings — published 1934
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,888 ratings — published 1982
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,590 ratings — published 1984
The Uncommon Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.73 — 63,138 ratings — published 2007
Cain's Jawbone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as 1934)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,373 ratings — published 1934
“The fascist dictator declares that the masses of people are biologically inferior and crave authority, that basically, they are slaves by nature. Hence, a totalitarian authoritarian regime is the only possible form of government for such people. It is significant that all dictators who today plunge the world into misery stem from the suppressed masses of people. They are intimately familiar with this sickness on the part of masses of people. What they lack is an insight into natural processes and development, the will to truth and research, so that they are never moved by a desire to want to change these facts.
On the other hand, the formal democratic leaders made the mistake of assuming that the masses of people were automatically capable of freedom and thereby precluded every possibility of establishing freedom and self-responsibility in masses of people as long as they were in power. They were engulfed in the catastrophe and will never reappear.
Our answer is scientific and rational. It is based on the fact that masses of people are indeed incapable of freedom, but it does not—as racial mysticism does—look upon this incapacity as absolute, innate, and eternal. It regards this incapacity as the result of former social conditions of life and, therefore, as changeable.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
On the other hand, the formal democratic leaders made the mistake of assuming that the masses of people were automatically capable of freedom and thereby precluded every possibility of establishing freedom and self-responsibility in masses of people as long as they were in power. They were engulfed in the catastrophe and will never reappear.
Our answer is scientific and rational. It is based on the fact that masses of people are indeed incapable of freedom, but it does not—as racial mysticism does—look upon this incapacity as absolute, innate, and eternal. It regards this incapacity as the result of former social conditions of life and, therefore, as changeable.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“In 1934, at the January Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the Soviet Communist Party, the Great Leader (having already in mind, no doubt, how many he would soon have to do away with) declared that the withering away of the state (which had been awaited virtually from 1920 on) would arrive via, believe it or not, the maximum intensification of state power.
This was so unexpectedly brilliant that it was not given to every little mind to grasp it, but Vyshinsky, ever the loyal apprentice, immediately picked it up: "And this means the maximum strengthening of corrective-labor institutions."
Entry into socialism via the maximum strengthening of prisons! And this was not some satirical magazine cracking a joke, either, but was said by the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union!”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
This was so unexpectedly brilliant that it was not given to every little mind to grasp it, but Vyshinsky, ever the loyal apprentice, immediately picked it up: "And this means the maximum strengthening of corrective-labor institutions."
Entry into socialism via the maximum strengthening of prisons! And this was not some satirical magazine cracking a joke, either, but was said by the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union!”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
