Nobel Prize for Literature for 1935

Nominations, please.

It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.

I refuse to believe that.

Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.

Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.

Or just one would suffice.

I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.

Originally posted by @fmf
Nominations, please.

It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.

I refuse to believe that.

Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.

Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.

Or just one would suffice.

I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.

Tortilla Flat : John Steinbeck

Maybe, like this year's debacle, they gave out two in 1936? 🙄

Originally posted by @great-big-stees
Tortilla Flat : John Steinbeck

Maybe, like this year's debacle, they gave out two in 1936? 🙄

2018 #metoo - just saying...


Edit: my personal choice for 1935, The African Queen by C.S. Forester

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social Security Act of 1935

The most broadly humanitarian thing the U.S. Government has ever enacted for its people.

Originally posted by @wolfe63
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social Security Act of 1935

The most broadly humanitarian thing the U.S. Government has ever enacted for its people.

Indeed but was it thought of as being very "left wing" at the time?

Originally posted by @great-big-stees
Indeed but was it thought of as being very "left wing" at the time?

After the Great Depression, the public wasn't so easily swayed by right-wing politics. In fact, from their cardboard box camps called "Hoovervilles" ...they blamed the deregulated right for the economic disaster.

Originally posted by @wolfe63
After the Great Depression, the public wasn't so easily swayed by right-wing politics. In fact, from their cardboard box camps called "Hoovervilles" ...they blamed the deregulated right for the economic disaster.

A quite Socialist point of view...very un-American.

Originally posted by @great-big-stees
A quite Socialist point of view...very un-American.

By the standards of today, yes. The global demonization of left-wing movements began in earnest after this period. One fatal result: Hitler.

Originally posted by @fmf
Nominations, please.

It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.

I refuse to believe that.

Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.

Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.

Or just one would suffice.

I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.

Tarzan and the Leopard Men. - Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Of course.

Originally posted by @fmf
Nominations, please.

It wasn't awarded that year because, supposedly, nothing was good enough.

I refuse to believe that.

Therefore, it follows that we should all refuse to believe it.

Name your favourite half a dozen novels of 1935.

Or just one would suffice.

I will count the votes when 200 different posters have expressed a choice.

I'll contribute to the 200 count.

Break the bonds of the "Novel!"

Lullaby of Broadway

Lyrics by Al Dubin

Lyrics
Come on along and listen to
The lullaby of Broadway
The hip hooray and ballyhoo
The lullaby of Broadway
The rumble of a subway train
The rattle of the taxis
The daffodils who entertain
At Angelo's and Maxi's
When a Broadway baby says good night
It's early in the morning
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight
Until the dawn
Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Hey
The band begins to go to town
And everyone goes crazy
You rock a bye your baby round
'Til everything gets hazy
Hush a bye, I'll buy you this and that
You hear a daddy saying
And baby goes home to her flat
To sleep all day
Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman's on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let's call it a day
Listen to the lullaby
Of old Broadway

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It Can't Happen Here ~ Sinclair Lewis

Was it prophetic?

Originally posted by @handyandy
It Can't Happen Here ~ Sinclair Lewis

Was it prophetic?

Absolutely!

Originally posted by @wolfe63
After the Great Depression, the public wasn't so easily swayed by right-wing politics. In fact, from their cardboard box camps called "Hoovervilles" ...they blamed the deregulated right for the economic disaster.

Rightfully so. The newly inaugurated Hoover administration in 1929 enacted numerous deregulatory acts for the banking industry and Wall Street went nuts and the crash in October, seven months later, was the direct result.

Little House On the Prairie -- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Purple Pirate, by the much under-appreciated Talbot Mundy