List of years in literature
1920s
### 1920s

* **[1920 in literature](/wiki/1920_in_literature "1920 in literature")** – F. Scott Fitzgerald's *[This Side of Paradise](/wiki/This_Side_of_Paradise "This Side of Paradise")*; D. H. Lawrence's *[Women in Love](/wiki/Women_in_Love "Women in Love")*; Sinclair Lewis's *[Main Street](/wiki/Main_Street_%28novel%29 "Main Street (novel)")*; Edith Wharton's *[The Age of Innocence](/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence "The Age of Innocence")*; [Hugh Lofting](/wiki/Hugh_Lofting "Hugh Lofting")'s *[The Story of Doctor Dolittle](/wiki/The_Story_of_Doctor_Dolittle "The Story of Doctor Dolittle")*; Yevgeny Zamyatin's *[We](/wiki/We_%28novel%29 "We (novel)")*; Sigmund Freud's *[Beyond the Pleasure Principle](/wiki/Beyond_the_Pleasure_Principle "Beyond the Pleasure Principle")*; Karel Capek's *[R.U.R.](/wiki/R.U.R. "R.U.R.")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Mysterious Affair at Styles](/wiki/The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles "The Mysterious Affair at Styles")*; H. P. Lovecraft's *[The Cats of Ulthar](/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar "The Cats of Ulthar")*. Death of [William Heinemann](/wiki/William_Heinemann "William Heinemann"), [Olive Schreiner](/wiki/Olive_Schreiner "Olive Schreiner")
* **[1921 in literature](/wiki/1921_in_literature "1921 in literature")** – Luigi Pirandello's play, *[Six Characters in Search of an Author](/wiki/Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author "Six Characters in Search of an Author")*; Langston Hughes's poem "[The Negro Speaks of Rivers](/wiki/The_Negro_Speaks_of_Rivers "The Negro Speaks of Rivers")" in *[The Crisis](/wiki/The_Crisis "The Crisis")*. Death of [Alexander Blok](/wiki/Alexander_Blok "Alexander Blok")
* **[1922 in literature](/wiki/1922_in_literature "1922 in literature")** – James Joyce's *[Ulysses](/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29 "Ulysses (novel)")*; T. S. Eliot's *[The Waste Land](/wiki/The_Waste_Land "The Waste Land")*; Hermann Hesse's *[Siddhartha](/wiki/Siddhartha_%28novel%29 "Siddhartha (novel)")*; E. R. Eddison's *[The Worm Ouroboros](/wiki/The_Worm_Ouroboros "The Worm Ouroboros")*; Rainer Maria Rilke's *[Duino Elegies](/wiki/Duino_Elegies "Duino Elegies")* and *[Sonnets to Orpheus](/wiki/Sonnets_to_Orpheus "Sonnets to Orpheus")*; Karel Capek's *[The Makropulos Affair](/wiki/The_Makropulos_Affair "The Makropulos Affair")*; John Galsworthy begins writing *[The Forsyte Saga](/wiki/The_Forsyte_Saga "The Forsyte Saga")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Secret Adversary](/wiki/The_Secret_Adversary "The Secret Adversary")*. Death of [Marcel Proust](/wiki/Marcel_Proust "Marcel Proust") (*[In Search of Lost Time](/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time "In Search of Lost Time")* completed)
* **[1923 in literature](/wiki/1923_in_literature "1923 in literature")** – Kahlil Gibran's *[The Prophet](/wiki/The_Prophet_%28book%29 "The Prophet (book)")*; Dorothy L. Sayers' *[Whose Body?](/wiki/Whose_Body%3F "Whose Body?")* ([Lord Peter Wimsey](/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey "Lord Peter Wimsey") makes his first appearance in print); Jaroslav Hašek's *[The Good Soldier Švejk](/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk "The Good Soldier Švejk")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Murder on the Links](/wiki/The_Murder_on_the_Links "The Murder on the Links")*. Death of [Katherine Mansfield](/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield "Katherine Mansfield")
* **[1924 in literature](/wiki/1924_in_literature "1924 in literature")** – Yevgeny Zamyatin's *[We](/wiki/We_%28novel%29 "We (novel)")*; Thomas Mann's *Der Zauberberg* (*[The Magic Mountain](/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain "The Magic Mountain")*); E. M. Forster's *[A Passage to India](/wiki/A_Passage_to_India "A Passage to India")*; Herman Melville's *[Billy Budd, Foretopman](/wiki/Billy_Budd "Billy Budd")*; Lord Dunsany's *[The King of Elfland's Daughter](/wiki/The_King_of_Elfland%27s_Daughter "The King of Elfland's Daughter")*; José Eustasio Rivera's *[The Vortex](/wiki/The_Vortex_%28novel%29 "The Vortex (novel)")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Man in the Brown Suit](/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Brown_Suit "The Man in the Brown Suit")* and *[Poirot Investigates](/wiki/Poirot_Investigates "Poirot Investigates")*. Death of [Franz Kafka](/wiki/Franz_Kafka "Franz Kafka"), [Joseph Conrad](/wiki/Joseph_Conrad "Joseph Conrad"), [Marie Corelli](/wiki/Marie_Corelli "Marie Corelli"), [Anatole France](/wiki/Anatole_France "Anatole France"), [Frances Hodgson Burnett](/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett "Frances Hodgson Burnett")
* **[1925 in literature](/wiki/1925_in_literature "1925 in literature")** – F. Scott Fitzgerald's *[The Great Gatsby](/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby "The Great Gatsby")*; W. Somerset Maugham's *[The Painted Veil](/wiki/The_Painted_Veil_%28novel%29 "The Painted Veil (novel)")*; Virginia Woolf's *[Mrs. Dalloway](/wiki/Mrs._Dalloway "Mrs. Dalloway")*; Franz Kafka's *Der Prozeß* (*[The Trial](/wiki/The_Trial "The Trial")*); Adolf Hitler's *[Mein Kampf](/wiki/Mein_Kampf "Mein Kampf")*; Mikhail Bulgakov's *[Heart of a Dog](/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog "Heart of a Dog")*; André Gide's *[The Counterfeiters](/wiki/The_Counterfeiters_%28novel%29 "The Counterfeiters (novel)")*; John Dos Passos's *[Manhattan Transfer](/wiki/Manhattan_Transfer_%28novel%29 "Manhattan Transfer (novel)")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Secret of Chimneys](/wiki/The_Secret_of_Chimneys "The Secret of Chimneys")*. Death of [Sergey Esenin](/wiki/Sergey_Esenin "Sergey Esenin"), [Amy Lowell](/wiki/Amy_Lowell "Amy Lowell")
* **[1926 in literature](/wiki/1926_in_literature "1926 in literature")** – A. A. Milne's *[Winnie\-the\-Pooh](/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_%28book%29 "Winnie-the-Pooh (book)")*; Ernest Hemingway's *[The Sun Also Rises](/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises "The Sun Also Rises")*; Sean O'Casey's play *[The Plough and the Stars](/wiki/The_Plough_and_the_Stars "The Plough and the Stars")*; Franz Kafka's *Das Schloß* *[(The Castle)](/wiki/The_Castle_%28novel%29 "The Castle (novel)")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd](/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd")*; [Ricardo Güiraldes](/wiki/Ricardo_G%C3%BCiraldes "Ricardo Güiraldes")' *[Don Segundo Sombra](/wiki/Don_Segundo_Sombra "Don Segundo Sombra")*. Death of [J. M. Dent](/wiki/J._M._Dent "J. M. Dent"), [Rudolf Christoph Eucken](/wiki/Rudolf_Christoph_Eucken "Rudolf Christoph Eucken"), [Rainer Maria Rilke](/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke "Rainer Maria Rilke")
* **[1927 in literature](/wiki/1927_in_literature "1927 in literature")** – Final instalment of Marcel Proust's *[In Search of Lost Time](/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time "In Search of Lost Time")*; Hermann Hesse's *[Steppenwolf](/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28novel%29 "Steppenwolf (novel)")*; Virginia Woolf's *[To the Lighthouse](/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse "To the Lighthouse")*; Arthur Conan Doyle's *[The Case\-Book of Sherlock Holmes](/wiki/The_Case-Book_of_Sherlock_Holmes "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes")*; Sinclair Lewis's *[Elmer Gantry](/wiki/Elmer_Gantry "Elmer Gantry")*; Yuri Olesha's *[Envy](/wiki/Envy_%28novel%29 "Envy (novel)")*; Sigrid Undset's *[The Snake Pit](/wiki/The_Master_of_Hestviken "The Master of Hestviken")*; Martin Heidegger's *[Being and Time](/wiki/Being_and_Time "Being and Time")*; Thornton Wilder's *[The Bridge of San Luis Rey](/wiki/The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey_%28novel%29 "The Bridge of San Luis Rey (novel)")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Big Four](/wiki/The_Big_Four_%28novel%29 "The Big Four (novel)")*; François Mauriac's *[Thérèse Desqueyroux](/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Desqueyroux_%28novel%29 "Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel)")*; H. P. Lovecraft's *[The Colour Out of Space](/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space "The Colour Out of Space")*. Death of [Jerome K. Jerome](/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome "Jerome K. Jerome")
* **[1928 in literature](/wiki/1928_in_literature "1928 in literature")** – D. H. Lawrence's *[Lady Chatterley's Lover](/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover "Lady Chatterley's Lover")*; Siegfried Sassoon's *[Memoirs of a Fox\-Hunting Man](/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Fox-Hunting_Man "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man")*; Bertholt Brecht's *[The Threepenny Opera](/wiki/The_Threepenny_Opera "The Threepenny Opera")*; Ilf and Petrov's *[The Twelve Chairs](/wiki/The_Twelve_Chairs "The Twelve Chairs")*; Federico Garcia Lorca's *[Gypsy Ballads](/wiki/Gypsy_Ballads "Gypsy Ballads")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Mystery of the Blue Train](/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Blue_Train "The Mystery of the Blue Train")*; Andrei Platonov's *[Chevengur](/wiki/Chevengur "Chevengur")*; Valerian Pidmohylny's *[The City](/wiki/The_City_%28Pidmohylny_novel%29 "The City (Pidmohylny novel)")*. Death of [Thomas Hardy](/wiki/Thomas_Hardy "Thomas Hardy")
* **[1929 in literature](/wiki/1929_in_literature "1929 in literature")** – William Faulkner's *[The Sound and the Fury](/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Fury "The Sound and the Fury")*; Ernest Hemingway's *[A Farewell to Arms](/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms "A Farewell to Arms")*; Alfred Döblin's *[Berlin Alexanderplatz](/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatz "Berlin Alexanderplatz")*; Erich Maria Remarque's *[All Quiet on the Western Front](/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front "All Quiet on the Western Front")*; Robert Graves's *[Goodbye to All That](/wiki/Goodbye_to_All_That "Goodbye to All That")*; John Cowper Powys's *[Wolf Solent](/wiki/Wolf_Solent "Wolf Solent")*; Rómulo Gallegos' *[Doña Bárbara](/wiki/Do%C3%B1a_B%C3%A1rbara "Doña Bárbara")*; Agatha Christie's *[The Seven Dials Mystery](/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery "The Seven Dials Mystery")* and *[Partners in Crime](/wiki/Partners_in_Crime_%28short_story_collection%29 "Partners in Crime (short story collection)")*; Virginia Woolf's *[A Room of One's Own](/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own "A Room of One's Own")*. Death of [Mary MacLane](/wiki/Mary_MacLane "Mary MacLane"). Establishment of [Faber and Faber](/wiki/Faber_and_Faber "Faber and Faber")

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