The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

In this itвЂ™s rather like A Passage to India of 1924. Telling the story of a British timber planter in his trials of life, love and friendship вЂ“ and in particular his desire to help an Indian friend in time of need вЂ“ Burmese Days exposes the very human evils of colonial rule. In Burmese Days, which was published first in the US in 1934 because of fears of libel suits, Orwell brought his first-hand experience as a policeman in Burma to give the world a very important and big book about the appalling, day-to-day iniquities of colonialism. Light, funny, dark and licentious, it follows the drunken exploits of a young man named William Atwater, who works in a museum, and his circle friends and their various romantic mishaps.Д«efore George Orwell was the man who deconstructed totalitarianism and Russian communism in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, he took aim at what was then a very contemporary evil вЂ“ the British empire. Written in his 20s, Afternoon Men was his first novel and is rather more Rachel Papers than Proustian sublimity. So my list aims to reflect the period as well to reflect what I believe are some of the most enduring and important works in the English language of that decade, omissions aside.ДЇorget what you think about know about Anthony Powell, whose 12 novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time was published from 1951 to 1975, and remains one of the outstanding works of English fiction in the 20th century. Yet, as the old order clung on, apparently immutable as ever, changes were everywhere вЂ“ internationally, politically, but also in literature and society. There were the imperial conferences, the empire endured and Britannia ruled the waves. In Britain, arguably, it can almost be viewed as the very last decade of the long 19th century. Ten is tough, so the corpus IвЂ™ve chosen I hope reflects the era: the 1930s is a big decade in world history. Similarly, 1934вЂ™s Murder on the Orient Express is a defining work but missing вЂ“ ultimately, because I feel that Marple is more telling than Poirot. Eric Ambler is missing, too, despite the visceral power of The Mask of Dimitrios (1939) and although Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh are on the list, neither Brighton Rock (1938) nor Scoop (1938) make it. Nor is there a barnstormer of the day, Margaret MitchellвЂ™s Gone With the Wind (1936), or Aldous HuxleyвЂ™s dystopian Brave New Word or, indeed, JRR TolkienвЂ™s fantastic The Hobbit (1937). ThereвЂ™s no Steinbeck, no Hemingway, no Woolf вЂ“ even though the 1930s saw her publish two works, The Waves (1931) and The Years (1937). Below is my list, but there are several omissions that I think I have to be up front about. B eing asked to curate a list of the best 10 novels of the 1930s is rather like being invited to tap-dance on a crocodileвЂ™s back: impossible to achieve and even harder to fake.

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