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1934 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934. Events *January 7 – The first ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip is created and illustrated by Alex Raymond and published in the United States. *January 25 – James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses'', after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in '' United States v. One Book Called Ulysses'', is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales. *January – B. Traven's novel ''The Death Ship'' ( 1926) first appears in English. *February – Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London. *February 6 – The February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' by the Comédie-Française, will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably '' Death on Credit'' by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936) and ''Gilles'' by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1939). Also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 7
Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting. * 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. * 1558 – French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England. 1601–1900 *1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. * 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. * 1738 – A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal. * 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. * 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the ''Prix Renaudot'' but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working class speech. In subsequent novels such as ''Death on the Installment Plan'' (1936), '' Guignol's Band'' (1944) and ''Castle to Castle'' (1957) Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language…what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale." From 1937 Céline wrote a series of antisemitic polemical works in which he advocated a military alliance with Nazi Germany. He continued to publicly espouse antisemitic views during the German occupation of France, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biography In Literature
When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for interpreting literature: literary biography and biographical criticism. Conversely, two genres of fiction rely heavily on the incorporation of biographical elements into their content: biographical fiction and autobiographical fiction. Literary biography A literary biography is the biographical exploration of the lives of writers and artists. Biographies about artists and writers are sometimes some of the most complicated forms of biography. Not only does the author of the biography have to write about the subject of the biography but also must incorporate discussion of the subject-author's literary works into the biography itself.Karl, Frederick R. "Joseph Conrad" in Meyers (ed.) ''The Craft'', pp 69–88 Literary biographers must balance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 3
Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. * 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. * 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. * 1559 – The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars. 1601–1900 *1721 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. * 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. *1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. * 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. *1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. * 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scribner's Magazine
''Scribner's Magazine'' was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939. ''Scribner's Magazine'' was the second magazine out of the Scribner's firm, after the publication of ''Scribner's Monthly''. Charles Scribner's Sons spent over $500,000 setting up the magazine, to compete with the already successful ''Harper's Monthly'' and ''The Atlantic Monthly''. ''Scribner's Magazine'' was launched in 1887, and was the first of any magazine to introduce color illustrations. The magazine ceased publication in 1939. The magazine contained many engravings by famous artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as articles by important authors of the time, including John Thomason, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris, Clarence Cook, and President Theodore Roosevelt. The magazine had high sales when Roosevelt started contributing, reaching over 200,000, but gradually lost circulation after World War I. History ''Scribne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tender Is The Night
''Tender Is the Night'' is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole descends into mental illness. Fitzgerald began the novel in 1925 after the publication of his third novel ''The Great Gatsby''. During the protracted writing process, the mental health of his wife rapidly deteriorated, and she required extended hospitalization due to her suicidal and homicidal tendencies. After her hospitalization in Baltimore, Maryland, the author rented the ''La Paix'' estate in the suburb of Towson to be close to his wife, and he continued working on the manuscript. While working on the book, Fitzgerald was beset with financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeeves
Jeeves (born Reginald Jeeves, nicknamed Reggie) is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster. First appearing in print in 1915, Jeeves continued to feature in Wodehouse's work until his last completed novel ''Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'' in 1974, a span of 60 years. Both the name "Jeeves" and the character of Jeeves have come to be thought of as the quintessential name and nature of a manservant, inspiring many similar characters as well as the name of an Internet search engine, Ask Jeeves, and a financial-technology company. A "Jeeves" is now a generic term as validated by its entry in the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Jeeves is a valet, not a butler; that is, he is responsible for serving an individual, whereas a butler is responsible for a household and manages other servants. On rare occasions he does fill in for someone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Right Ho, Jeeves
''Right Ho, Jeeves'' is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after ''Thank You, Jeeves''. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 October 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title ''Brinkley Manor''. It had also been sold to the '' Saturday Evening Post'', in which it appeared in serial form from 23 December 1933 to 27 January 1934, and in England in the ''Grand Magazine'' from April to September 1934. Wodehouse had already started planning this sequel while working on ''Thank You, Jeeves''. The story is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia, and introduces the recurring characters Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett. Bertie's friend Tuppy Glossop and cousin Angela Travers also feature in the novel, as does Brinkley Court's prized chef, Anatole. Plot Bertie returns to Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thank You, Jeeves
''Thank You, Jeeves'' is a Jeeves comic novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 16 March 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 23 April 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, New York.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 65-66, A51. The story had previously been serialised, in the ''Strand Magazine'' in the UK from August 1933 to February 1934, and in the US in ''Cosmopolitan Magazine'' from January to June 1934. ''Thank You, Jeeves'' is the first full-length novel in the series of stories following narrator Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, though Jeeves leaves Bertie's employment for most of this story. The novel largely takes place around Chuffnell Hall, the home of Bertie's friend Lord "Chuffy" Chuffnell, who hopes to sell the house to the wealthy J. Washburn Stoker and is in love with Stoker's daughter Pauline. Plot After a falling-out concerning Bertie's relentless playing of the banjolele, Jeeves leaves his master's service and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 5
Events Pre-1600 * 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor. * 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope. * 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I. * 1143 – With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom. *1450 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction. 1601–1900 *1607 – Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi. *1789 – French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority. *1813 – War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit. * 1838 – The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped. *1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 16
Events Pre-1600 * 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. *1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. 1601–1900 * 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." *1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament. * 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. * 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. *1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. * 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1939. Events *Early – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon''. *January **American literary magazine ''The Kenyon Review'' is founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom. **The American pulp science fiction magazine '' Startling Stories'' appears, edited by Mort Weisinger. It includes '' The Black Flame'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. **Eando Binder's story " I, Robot" appears in the U.S. science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. **'' The Criterion'', a British literary quarterly, is founded and edited by T. S. Eliot. **W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. *January/February – '' Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'', founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
