Best of
English-Literature

1928

Pooh Invents A New Game


A.A. Milne - 1928
    Is Eeyore digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Is he leaping from branch to branch of an oak tree? Wrong. Is he waiting for somebody to help him out of the river? Right. Perfect for early readers, Pooh Invents a New Game will not fail to please! Adapted by Stephen Krensky. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

Point Counter Point


Aldous Huxley - 1928
    By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of the modern man" in the manner of a composer--themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic.First published in 1928, Huxley's satiric view of intellectual life in the '20s is populated with characters based on such celebrities as D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murry, as well as Huxley himself.

Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast


A.A. Milne - 1928
    Milne and Color Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

Motive v. Opportunity - a Miss Marple Short Story


Agatha Christie - 1928
    Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter’s death, Clode turns to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact the young girl in the afterlife. Clode then decided to write a new will designating Eurydice as the benefactor and excluding his other nieces and nephew. To everyone’s surprise, when the envelope containing the will is opened, the paper is blank. The Tuesday Night Club gets on the case. Did we mention Jane Marple is one of the members?A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an eBook.Librarian's note: this entry relates to the short story, "Motive v. Opportunity." Collections and the other stories by the author are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The Miss Marple series includes twelve novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."

Happy Days


A.A. Milne - 1928
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore


A.A. Milne - 1928
    A. Milne and features Pooh and his friends. Ernest H. Shepard's much-loved illustrations accompany each story and will delight the countless fans--young and old--of the Best Bear in All the World.--back cover

Second Plays by A.A. Milne


A.A. Milne - 1928
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Decline and Fall


Evelyn Waugh - 1928
    His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society.