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Events relating to english literature
Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage
A spoof history text book, 1066 and all that, is justifiably described by its authors, Walter Sellar and Robert Yeatman, as a Memorable History of England
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico
British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil
British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World
John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York
H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'
English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May
In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times
In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
In A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh sends his hero Tony Last to a disastrous fate, far away in the Amazon rain forest
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
British publisher Allen Lane launches a paperback series to which he gives the name Penguin Books
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
In Language, Truth and Logic 26-year-old A.J. Ayer produces a classic exposition of Logical Positivism
Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London
C.S. Forester's central character, Horatio Hornblower, features for the first time – in The Happy Return
George Orwell reveals the harsh realities of contemporary British life in The Road to Wigan Pier
British author Evelyn Waugh publishes a classic Fleet Street novel, Scoop, introducing Lord Copper, proprietor of The Beast
In Homage to Catalonia George Orwell describes his experiences fighting for the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
British author Graham Greene publishes Brighton Rock, a novel following 17-year-old Pinkie in the criminal underworld of the seaside town
