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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1929. ==Events== *January 10 - ''The Adventures of Tintin'': First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' (''Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets''), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement, ''Le Petit Vingtième''. *February–August - Voltaire's ''Candide'' (1759) is held to be obscene by the United States Customs Service in Boston. *February - The first of Margery Allingham's crime novels to feature Albert Campion, ''The Crime at Black Dudley'' (U.S. title: ''The Black Dudley Murder''), is published in England. *April 1 - The Faber and Faber publishing house is established in London by Geoffrey Faber with T. S. Eliot as literary editor. *c. June? - The first of Gladys Mitchell's crime novels, introducing her psychologist detective character Mrs Bradley, ''Speedy Death'', is published in England. *July - British publisher William Collins, Sons launches The Detective Story Club as an imprint with Edgar Wallace's novelization of ''The Terror''. *July 5 - Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair (London) gallery on grounds of indecency under the Vagrancy Act 1838. *August - Censorship of Publications Act sets up the Censorship of Publications Board in the Irish Free State. *August 15 - The first Ellery Queen mystery novel, ''The Roman Hat Mystery'', is published in New York City. *Midyear - Serialization begins of one of the first original Thai novels (and the first by a woman) 'Dokmai Sot' (M. L. Bubpha Kunjara Nimmanhemin)'s ''Sattru Khǫng Čhaolon'' ("Her Enemy") followed shortly by publication of 'M. C. Akat' (Prince Arkartdam-keung Rapheephat)'s semi-autobiographical ''Lakhǫn Haeng Chiwit'' ("The Circus of Life"). Thai writers join with Kulap Saipradit in the Suphapburut literary group. *October - Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir become a couple, having met for the first time while he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Twenty-one-year-old de Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the ''agrégation'' in philosophy, and comes second in the final examination, beaten only by Sartre. *October 11 - Seán O'Casey's play ''The Silver Tassie'', set in World War I, premières at the Apollo Theatre in London,〔(''The Times'', 3 October 1929. )〕 directed by Raymond Massey and starring Charles Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald, with a set design by Augustus John. Rejected the previous year by W. B. Yeats for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, it will not be seen in Ireland until 1935. *October 29 - Release (in the United States) of the first sound film adaptation of a Shakespeare play, ''The Taming of the Shrew'', starring Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks. *December - George Orwell returns to England after living in Paris. *Father Ronald Knox codifies the "rules" for the Golden Age of Detective Fiction in a "Decalogue".〔In his "Introduction" to ''The Best Detective Stories of 1928-29''.〕 *''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' is prohibited in the Soviet Union because of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in the occult. *Monotype introduce Stanley Morison's revival of the Bembo typeface for book printing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1929 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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