Chronological Period/1920's
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The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Knight, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019874563X
- Language: English
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The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
$16.99 Add to cartOne of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The- Author: Madigan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1250878640
- Language: English
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A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
$20.95 Add to cartHow the Treaty of Versailles is still influencing current events-with a new Foreword by Sir Harold Evans and a new Introduction by the author
For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized
- Author: Andelman, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1620459914
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Depression: 1921, the Crash That Cured Itself
$18.00 Add to cartJames Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…makes difficult economic concepts easy to understan… [more below]
- Author: Grant, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1451686463
- Language: English
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
$32.00 Add to cartUnknown to most modern-day investors and traders who cherish Reminiscences of a Stock Operator as one of the most important investment books ever written, the material first appeared in the 1920s as a… [more below]
- Series: Marketplace Book #175
- Author: Lef?vre, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2004
- ISBN10: 471678767
- Language: English
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Essays on the Great Depression
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic eco
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254133
- Language: English
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Murder in the Dark
$14.99 Add to cart“One of the most exciting and dangerous of the adventures into which Phryne’s fabulous and risky lifestyle has led her” —Kirkus Reviews
It’s Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best pa
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback) #16
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 1590586344
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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Requiem for a Mezzo
$17.99 Add to cartEngland, 1923: The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple attends a performance of Verdi’s Requiem with Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. The tickets were a gift from Muriel Westlea, Daisy
- Series: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries (Paperback) #3
- Author: Dunn, Carola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1250120888
- Language: English
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The Quilter’s Homecoming: An ELM Creek Quilts Novel
$18.99 Add to cartYoung newlyweds Elizabeth and Henry must find a connection between the past and the future in order to build a prosperous life on the Triumph Ranch in this Roaring Twenties tale of boom and bust.
Whe- Series: ELM Creek Quilts #10
- Author: Chiaverini, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743260236
- Language: English
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
$25.99 Add to cartA revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World Broke in- Author: Goldstein, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182506
- Language: English
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Damsel in Distress: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
$19.99 Add to cartA mysterious kidnapping disrupts young love in the latest mystery in Carola Dunn’s beloved Daisy Dalrymple series. Features a Daisy Dalrymple short story — Unhappy Medium.
In the early summer of 192- Series: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries #5
- Author: Dunn, Carola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1250307414
- Language: English
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Mistletoe and Murder
$16.99 Add to cartBack in a brand new edition, Carola Dunn’s Mistletoe and Murder is a classic Christmas Daisy Dalrymple mystery for new fans and old.
In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has- Series: Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, 11 #11
- Author: Dunn, Carola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1250754429
- Language: English
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Naomi
$18.00 Add to cartA hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion–from a master Japanese novelist.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375724745
- Language: English
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Joy in the Morning
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage.
In 1927, in Brooklyn, New
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Smith, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0061774332
- Language: English
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$9.95 Read moreSet during the Roaring Twenties, this witty social satire of the Jazz Age was a runaway bestseller in 1925. Written in diary form, the story follows the escapades of gold-digging flapper Lorelei Lee a… [more below]
- Author: Loos, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0486850730
- Language: English
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Murder in Montparnasse
$14.99 Add to cart“A most charming, sexy, independent, and candid heroine; clever, literate dialog; and closely woven plotting will win immediate fans for this debut series.” —Library Journal STARRED review
Seven Austr
- Series: Phryne Fisher Mysteries #12
- Author: Greenwood, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1590582772
- Language: English
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Proof of Guilt
$19.99 Add to cartIan Rutledge of Scotland Yard must contend with two dangerous enemies in New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd’s Proof of Guilt.
Can Rutledge solve the apparent murder of a top wine merchant w
- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #15
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0062015699
- Language: English
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The Confession
$16.99 Add to cart“One of the best historical series being written today.”
—Washington Post“Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.”
—Entertai- Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries #14
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0062015672
- Language: English
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Tender Is the Night: A Romance
$30.00 Add to cartNow available in a beautifully designed collector’s edition, this modern classic set in the South of France after World War I is the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and the bewitching, wealthy, and … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1982147717
- Language: English
