Anul 1931 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative. Evenimente
Cărți noi Papucii lui Mahmud de Gala Galaction Shmuel Yosef Agnon – The Bridal Canopy Margery Allingham – Police at the Funeral Roberto Arlt – Los lanzallamas (The Flame-Throwers) E. F. Benson – Mapp and Lucia Arna Bontemps – God Sends Sunday Pearl S. Buck – The Good Earth Morley Callaghan – No Man's Meat Nellie Campobello – Cartucho John Dickson Carr Castle Skull The Lost Gallows Willa Cather – Shadows on the Rock Sigurd Christiansen – To levende og en død Agatha Christie – The Sittaford Mystery Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth – The Cat Who Went to Heaven N. D. Cocea – Vinul de viață lungă A. J. Cronin – Hatter's Castle E. E. Cummings – CIOPW Sergiu Dan – Dragoste și moarte în provincie Detection Club – The Floating Admiral Pierre Drieu La Rochelle – Will O' the Wisp Lord Dunsany – The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens William Faulkner Sanctuary These 13 Jessie Redmon Fauset – The Chinaberry Tree Carlo Emilio Gadda – La madonna dei filosofi Emma Goldman – Living My Life Caroline Gordon – Penhally Dashiell Hammett – The Glass Key James Hanley – Boy Serge-Simon Held – La Mort du fer (The Death of Iron) Harold Heslop – Red Earth Georgette Heyer – The Conqueror James Hilton – Murder at School Knud Holmboe – Desert Encounter Fannie Hurst – Back Street Francis Iles – Malice Aforethought Carolyn Keene – The Secret of Shadow Ranch Irmgard Keun – Gilgi – eine von uns (Gilgi – One of Us) Halldór Laxness – Salka Valka, pt I: Þú vínviður hreini (O Thou Pure Vine) W. Somerset Maugham – Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular Pierre Mac Orlan – La Bandera Nancy Mitford – Highland Fling Thomas Mofolo – Chaka Leopold Myers – Prince Jali Ilf and Petrov – The Little Golden Calf Andrei Platonov – The Foundation Pit (Котлован, Kotlovan; completed; not published until after the author's death in 1951) Anthony Powell – Afternoon Men Ellery Queen – The Dutch Shoe Mystery Erich Remarque – The Road Back E. Arnot Robertson – Four Frightened People Rafael Sabatini – Captain Blood ReturnsVita Sackville-West – All Passion SpentJohn Monk Saunders – Single LadyDorothy Sayers – Five Red HerringsGeorge S. Schuyler – Black No MoreNevil Shute – Lonely RoadGeorges Simenon – Pietr-le-Letton (book format) Upton Sinclair – Roman HolidayThomas Sigismund Stribling – The ForgePhoebe Atwood Taylor – The Cape Cod MysterySigrid Undset – Wild OrchidHugh Walpole – Judith ParisNathanael West – The Dream Life of Balso SnellVirginia Woolf – The WavesP. G. WodehouseBig MoneyIf I Were YouSax Rohmer - Daughter of Fu Manchu Teatru
Chen Liting – Put Down Your Whip (放下你的鞭子, Fàngxià nǐde biānzi) Noël Coward – Post Mortem (published) John van Druten – London WallFederico García Lorca – When Five Years Pass (Así que pasen cinco años, written) Jean Giraudoux – JudithEugene O'Neill – Mourning Becomes ElectraAhmed Shawqi – Qambeez (Cambyses) Dodie Smith – Autumn CrocusGladys Bronwyn Stern – The Man Who Pays The PiperÖdön von Horváth – Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald) Thornton Wilder – The Long Christmas DinnerCarl Zuckmayer – The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)Poezie
Non-ficțiune Samuel Beckett – ProustAdrian Bell – Silver LeyMarc Bloch – Les Caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale françaiseArthur Bryant – King Charles the SecondHerbert Butterfield – The Whig Interpretation of HistoryW. Chapman and V. C. A. Ferraro – A New Theory of Magnetic StormsAli Akbar Dehkhoda et al. – Dehkhoda Dictionary of the Persian language Julius Evola – The Hermetic TraditionDion Fortune – Spiritualism in the Light of Occult ScienceJohn Middleton Murry – Son of Woman: The Story of D. H. LawrenceIrma S. Rombauer – The Joy of CookingHelen Thomas – World Without End'' Nașteri
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