March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel Boy.[2]
May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with his Brough Superior motorcycle while returning to his cottage at Clouds Hill, England, after posting books to a friend, A. E. "Jock" Chambers, and sending a telegram inviting the novelist Henry Williamson to lunch.[3][4] He dies six days later. On July 29 his Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation.
The library journal Die Bucherei in Nazi Germany publishes guidelines for books to be removed from library shelves and destroyed: all those by Jewish authors, Marxist and pacifist literature, and anything critical of the state.[10]
The first published edition of the Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome), written in 1785, in a scholarly edition as a literary text, is completed.[11]
↑ Jane Potter (December 3, 2014). "Jon Stallworthy". The Guardian. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
↑ Brautigan, Richard (1989). Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing in America; The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster; and, In watermelon sugar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence. p.138. ISBN9780395500767.
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