1924 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1924.

Events[]

  • January
    • Writer Miguel de Unamuno is dismissed for the first time from his university posts by the Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera and goes into exile on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.
    • Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster establish the New York City publisher Simon & Schuster, which initially specializes in crossword puzzle books.[1]
  • January 15 – The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the B.B.C. from its London studios.[2]
  • February 2 – A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces.[3][4][5]
  • March 3 – Seán O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.[6]
  • March
    • Leonard and Virginia Woolf move themselves and the Hogarth Press back to a house in Bloomsbury at 52 Tavistock Square, London.
    • Weird Tales magazine publishes H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Rats in the Walls" in the United States.
  • April – Ford Madox Ford publishes the first of four volumes set around World War I, titled Parade's End. It is completed in 1928.
  • April 12 – The Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore arrives in China, where his views prove controversial.[7] While there, he becomes associated with the innovative poets Xu Zhimo and Lin Huiyin.
  • May 3 – F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leave New York for France.
  • June – Ret Marut, perhaps previously Otto Feige and presumed later to be the writer B. Traven, leaves Europe for Mexico.[8]
  • June 4 – E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India is published in the U.K. He will write no further fiction in the remaining 46 years of his life.
  • September – Buddenbrooks, the first of Thomas Mann's works to appear in English, is published in a translation by the American Helen T. Lowe-Porter. The original German appeared in 1901.
  • unknown dates
    • The Hebrew language poet Hayim Nahman Bialik relocates with his publishing house Dvir from Berlin to Tel Aviv.
    • The Argosy Book Store is founded in New York City.[9]

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References[]

  1. ^ Allen, Frederick Lewis (1931). Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. p. 165. ISBN 0-06-095665-8.
  2. ^ "Mining the seams of radio history". The Stage.
  3. ^ "New Play at the Aldwych". The Times. London. 2 February 1924. p. 8.
  4. ^ "Mr. Ralph Lynn". The Times. 10 August 1962. p. 11.
  5. ^ "The Theatres". The Times. 25 June 1925. p. 12.
  6. ^ a b "Juno and the Paycock". PlayographyIreland. Dublin: Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 2013-11-22.
  7. ^ Das, Sisir Kumar. "The Controversial Guest: Tagore in China". Archived from the original on 2014-08-18. Retrieved 2014-08-21.
  8. ^ Heidi Zogbaum (1992). B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico. SR Books. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-8420-2392-4.
  9. ^ The Publishers Weekly. R. R. Bowker Company. 1937. p. 67.
  10. ^ Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (1 January 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 559. ISBN 90-272-3452-3.
  11. ^ Max Saunders (22 April 2010). Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature. OUP Oxford. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-19-161473-6.
  12. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1925. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1926. p. 194.
  13. ^ Parker, Hershel (Winter 1990). ""Billy Budd, Foretopman" and the Dynamics of Canonization". College Literature. 1. 17: 21–32. JSTOR 25111840.
  14. ^ Tarn, Nathaniel, ed. (1975). Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems. Penguin. p. 14.
  15. ^ H. L. Hix (2002). Understanding William H. Gass. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-57003-472-5.
  16. ^ Salem Press (2009). American Ethnic Writers. Salem Press. p. 1053. ISBN 978-1-58765-465-7.
  17. ^ Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (1999). Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-313-30501-6.
  18. ^ Calder, John (23 February 1995). "Obituary: Robert Bolt". The Independent. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  19. ^ Jay Parini (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.
  20. ^ Garth, John (20 January 2020). "Christopher Tolkien obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  21. ^ William Henry Wilde; Joy W. Hooton; B. G. Andrews (1994). The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-19-553381-1.
  22. ^ "E. Nesbit | English author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  23. ^ Brod, Max (1960). Franz Kafka: A Biography. New York: Schocken Books. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-8052-0047-8.
  24. ^ Stapert-Eggen, Marijke T. C. "The Rosenthaliana's Jacob Israel de Haan Archive". University of Amsterdam Library. Retrieved 2013-11-22.
  25. ^ Martin Ray (13 September 2010). Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections. University of Iowa Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-60938-017-5.
  26. ^ André Gide (1956). The Journals, 1889-1949: 1889-1924. Vintage Books. p. 3.
  27. ^ Joanne Shattock; Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock (1993). The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-19-214176-7.


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