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Events relating to english literature
Maxim de Winter's house, Manderley, holds dark secrets in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood emigrate together to the USA, later becoming US citizens
Irish author Flann O'Brien publishes his first novel, At Swim-Two-Birds
British author Christopher Isherwood publishes his novel Goodbye to Berlin, based on his own experiences in the city
T.S. Eliot gives cats a poetic character in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman is rejected by numerous publishers before becoming, decades later, his best-known novel
British author Rebecca West publishes an account of Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
English children's author Enid Blyton introduces the Famous Five in Five on a Treasure Island
The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York
English author Nancy Mitford has her first success with the novel The Pursuit of Love
Evelyn Waugh publishes Brideshead Revisited, a novel about a rich Catholic family in England between the wars
In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin
Titus Groan begins British author Mervyn Peake's trilogy of gothic novels
English author and alcoholic Malcolm Lowry publishes an autobiographical novel, Under the Volcano
J.B. Priestley challenges audiences with An Inspector Calls, a play in which moral guilt spreads like an infection
Christopher Fry's verse drama The Lady's Not For Burning engages in high-spirited poetic word play
Enid Blyton introduces her most successful character, Noddy, a small boy who can't avoid nodding when he speaks
George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel set in a terrifying totalitarian state of the future, watched over by Big Brother
C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
British author Doris Lessing publishes her first novel, The Grass is Singing
British author John Wyndham creates a dark fantasy in his novel The Day of the Triffids
A Question of Upbringing begins Antony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time'
British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England
Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms, the first novel in the Sword of Honour trilogy based on his wartime experiences
English author L.P. Hartley sets his novel The Go-Between in the summer of 1900
