"Rebecca" was published in 1938 and features the famous opening line 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...'. The book was also adapted into a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
2. A Clergyman's Daughter
Answer: George Orwell
"A Clergyman's Daughter" was published in 1935 and is Orwell's second novel to be published. The title "A Clergyman's Daughter" refers to the book's protagonist Dorothy Hare, who suffers amnesia.
3. Black Mischief
Answer: Evelyn Waugh
"Black Mischief" was published in 1932 and is Waugh's third novel to be published. The setting of the novel is Azania, a fictional east African country.
4. The Waves
Answer: Virginia Woolf
"The Waves" was first published in 1931. The novel is distinctive in style as it consists of interior monologues spoken by six characters. Consequently, Woolf called it a "playpoem".
5. As I Lay Dying
Answer: William Faulkner
"As I Lay Dying" was published in 1930 and is Faulkner's fifth novel to be published. The title alludes to Homer's "The Odyssey", which features the line "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." A film adaptation directed by James Franco was released in 2013.
6. The Shape of Things to Come
Answer: HG Wells
"The Shape of Things to Come" was published in 1933. The book is a pseudo-historical account spanning from 1933 until the year 2106. Wells' work was also adapted into a 1979 film directed by George McCowan.
7. Gone with the Wind
Answer: Margaret Mitchell
"Gone with the Wind" was first published in 1936, and is the only novel to be published by Mitchell. An American classic, Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.
8. Dumb Witness
Answer: Agatha Christie
"Dumb Witness" was published in 1937 and features Hercule Poirot. The book was narrated by Poirot's friend Arthur Hastings. Whilst Poirot appears in 33 novels, Hastings only narrates 8 of them.
9. Finnegans Wake
Answer: James Joyce
"Finnegans Wake" was published in 1939 and is renowned for being one of the most difficult texts to read in the English language. The physicist Murray Gell-Mann gave the particles 'quarks' their name after the book's phrase, "Three quarks for Muster Mark".
10. Regency Buck
Answer: Georgette Heyer
"Regency Buck" was published in 1935 and is the first of Heyer's romance novels to be set in the Regency era. The historical figure Beau Brummell is featured in the novel.
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