This year saw the launch of the a Reading Challenge hosted by me. Time to announce the second edition of the Hundred Years Hence challenge for 2026. Things are the same. All you have to do to participate is to read a text that was published for the first time in 1926. Yes, a hundred … Continue reading #HYH26: Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge
Tag: 1926
#WIT #Classics Club: Feme/ Secret Sentence by Vicki Baum (1926)
In Vicki Baum's novel, we see post-WWI Germany facing economic decline. The upper class is slowly coming down, the working class is almost out on the streets. The novel opens in a house shared by two such families: the Burthes and the Schliepkes. Geheimart Burthe lives with his wife, his daughter Charlotte, and his son, … Continue reading #WIT #Classics Club: Feme/ Secret Sentence by Vicki Baum (1926)
Friday’s Forgotten Book: What Came to Cinderella by Curtis Yorke (1926)
"I must have freedom," she declared. "My life embraces so much. I have so many interests. While you - you poor little soul - you are merely a - a veritable Cinderella." "Oh well, we know who came out on top in that story," laughed Faith good-naturedly. Faith Norman, the eponymous Cinderella, lives in an … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: What Came to Cinderella by Curtis Yorke (1926)
He ain’t no Dickson Carr: E.P. Oppenheim’s The Golden Beast (1926)
Lord Israel Honerton sits watching his family at the dinner table, his thoughts tinged with melancholy when a servant enters and tells Israel's eldest son,Cecil, that the gamekeeper John Heggs wants to talk to him regarding the hunting expedition the next day. Cecil, for some reason apprehensive, leaves the table and meets the Keeper who … Continue reading He ain’t no Dickson Carr: E.P. Oppenheim’s The Golden Beast (1926)
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