The top novel of 1929 was, and remains, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. The novel bares the callousness that soldiers develop as protection against the brutality of war.
Archive for the ‘1929 Bestselling Novels’ Category
The cream of 1929 bestselling novels
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, My Top Pics on September 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Land lures, blood ties
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, tagged England, farming, H. W. Freeman, rural life on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
W. H. Freeman describes character through behavior. You’ll remember bits of Joseph and His Brethren long after you’ve forgotten the plot.
Realistic Tale of Black Single Mom in 1870s South
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Psychological novel, tagged 19th century, black experience, Julia Peterkin, Reconstruction, single mothers, The South on September 2, 2009 | Comments Off
In Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin deftly shows how one woman copes as a single parent. Mary’s choices may not be good ones, but Peterkin makes them appear plausible.
Great Story Trumps Technical Flaws
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Psychological novel, tagged America, black community, Du Bose Heyward, gentrification, race relations on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Mamba’s Daughters will knock your socks off.
Peder VictoriouSuffers Fractures
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Historical, tagged American History, Dakota territory, frontier, Norwegians in America, O. E. Rolvaag, pioneers on August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In Peder Victorious, O. E. Rolvaag looks at the second generation of Norwegian pioneers who broke the Dakota prairies to the plow.
Peder Victorious Holm and his siblings think of themselves as Americans. Their mother, Beret Holm, still regards herself as Norwegian. She wishes her children to speak, read, think in Norwegian; have only Norwegian friends; [...]
Clear-eyed romance entrances
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Coming of age, Psychological novel, Romance, tagged London, medicine, Warwick Deeping on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Warwick Deeping’s Roper’s Row is an engaging romance about a brilliant doctor who finds love on his doorstep and tries to step around it.
Plot Tops Characterization in Bishop Murder Case
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Mystery, tagged mathematicians, nursery rhyme, S. S. Van Dine on August 5, 2009 | Comments Off
If you don’t mind mysteries with plastic characters, you’ll find The Bishop Murder Mystery a good read.
Dodsworth: Two themes in one cover
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, Psychological novel, tagged automobile industry, culture wars, England, European culture, Sinclair Lewis, Yale University on July 29, 2009 | Comments Off
Dodsworth is the story an American businessman’s midlife crisis.
All Still Disquieting in WWI Tale
Posted in 1929 Bestselling Novels, My Top Pics, Psychological novel, War, tagged Germany, Erica Maria Remarque, World War I, soldiers, trench warfare on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque takes readers into the German trenches of World War I. As long as nations send their young people straight from schoolyards to combat zones, All Quiet on the Western Front will continue to be an important book.
