Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton Read Free Book Online

Tragedy
.
Stein:
The Making of Americans
.
Dos Passos:
Manhattan Transfer
.
Woolf:
Mrs Dalloway
;
The Common Reader
.
Gide:
Les Faux-monnayeurs
.
Kafka:
The Trial
.
1926

Fitzgerald:
All the Sad Young Men
.
Hemingway:
The Sun Also Rises
.
Bromfield:
Early Autumn
.

1927
Death of Walter Berry. Attempts by literary figures in the US to promote Wharton for the Nobel Prize end in failure.
Woolf:
To the Lighthouse
.
Hemingway:
Men without Women
.
Cather:
Death Comes for the Archbishop
.
Mauriac:
Thérèse Desqueyroux
.
1928
Death of Teddy Wharton.
Woolf:
Orlando
.
Lawrence:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
.
Waugh:
Decline and Fall
.
Huxley:
Point Counter Point
.
Yeats:
The Tower
.
1929
Awarded Gold Medal by American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Hudson River Bracketed
.
Woolf:
A Room of One’s Own
.
Faulkner:
The Sound and the Fury
.
Hemingway:
A Farewell to Arms
.
1930
Aldous Huxley and Cyril Connolly visit Wharton at Hyères.
Dos Passos:
The 42nd Parallel
.
Faulkner:
As I Lay Dying
.
Hammett:
The Maltese Falcon
.
Hart Crane:
The Bridge
.
Freud:
Civilization and Its Discontents
.
Death of Lawrence.
1932
The Gods Arrive
. Writing autobiography,
A Backward Glance
. Visits Rome. Becomes increasingly interested in Roman Catholicism.
Glasgow:
The Sheltered Life
.
Huxley:
Brave New World
.
1933
Begins work on
The Buccaneers
(published 1938).
Stein:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
.
Ivy Compton Burnett:
More Women than Men
.
Céline:
Voyage au bout de la nuit
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS
    ‘Monkey Trial’ (Scopes), Dayton, Tennessee.
    Al Capone a powerful force in Chicago.
    First public demonstration of television.
    Period of Franco-German reconciliation under foreign minister Briand (to 1930); Locarno Pact guarantees existing frontiers.
    First Surrealist exhibition in Paris.
    Adolf Hitler:
Mein Kampf
.
    General Strike in UK. Germany joins the League of Nations. Poincaré resumes premiership and succeeds in stabilizing French economy. Chanel launches the ‘little black dress’.
    Lindbergh’s solo Atlantic flight.
    Kellog–Briand Pact outlaws war. First Five-Year Plan in USSR; Stalin is de facto dictator. 26 million cars and 13 million radios in use in US. Herbert Hoover elected US president. Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly the Atlantic solo.
    New York stock market crash. A worldwide depression follows. Mass unemployment.
    Museum of Modern Art in New York founded. Empire State Building opened. Gandhi begins civil disobedience campaign in India.
    The 1930s see increasingly unstable government in France, with 20 changes of premier. Construction of Maginot line begins (to 1939).
    Unemployment in US rises to 13 million. Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president. Lindbergh’s son kidnapped. German war reparations suspended indefinitely at Lausanne. President Doumer assassinated in France.
    New Deal begins; Prohibition repealed. Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany; Germany begins to re-arm. Growth of Fascist movement in France.
     
DATE
AUTHOR’S LIFE
LITERARY CONTEXT
1934
A Backward Glance
published.
Fitzgerald:
Tender is the Night
.
Miller:
Tropic of Cancer
.
Waugh:
A Handful of Dust
.
1935
Stage version of
The Old Maid
wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Elizabeth Bowen:
The House in Paris
.
Cather:
Lucy Gayheart
.
1936
Successful dramatization of
Ethan Frome
.
T. S. Eliot:
Collected Poems
.
Dos Passos:
The Big Money
.
Faulkner:
Absalom, Absalom!

Santayana:
The Last Puritan
.
West:
The Thinking Reed
.
Margaret Mitchell:
Gone with the Wind
.
1937
Completes final short story, ‘All Souls’. Suffers a stroke in June. Dies 11 August. Buried at Versailles.
Woolf:
The Years
.
Hemingway:
To Have and Have Not
.
Wallace Stevens:
The Man with the Blue Guitar
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS
    Stavisky scandal in France. Stalin’s purge of the Communist Party underway in USSR. Hitler becomes German Führer.
    Mussolini invades Abyssinia. National Labour Relations Act in US. Nuremberg laws in Germany.
    Left-wing Front Populaire win French general election;