1933 books (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: The Hound of Death, Truppenführung, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, In Praise of Shadows, Sheppey, 1933 in literature, Testament of Youth, The Brighter Buccaneer, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Once More the Saint, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Marlborough: His Life and Times, Lamsa Bible, My Life and Hard Times, Winner Take Nothing, English Missal, The Great Illusion, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, Famous First Facts, The Mis-Education of the Negro, We Are the Living, All the Mowgli Stories, Vertebrate Paleontology, Mulliner Nights, The Herald of Coming Good, Invincible Louisa, The March of Democracy, Trial and Error, Eimi, Myths and Legends of the Bantu, Chinese Destinies, Viva Villa!. Excerpt: The Hound of Death and Other Stories is a collection of twelve short stories by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom in October 1933. Unusually, the collection was not published by Christie's regular publishers, William Collins & Sons, but by Odhams Press and was not available to purchase in shops (see Publication of book collection below). This was the first time that a Christie book had been published in the UK but not in the US although all of the stories contained within it appeared in later US collections (see US book appearances of stories below). Unusually, most of these are tales of fate and the supernatural with comparatively little detective content. This collection is most notable for the first appearance in a book of Christie's famous short story The Witness for the Prosecution. The author subsequently wrote an award-winning play based on this story which has been adapted for film and twice for television. William P. Ryan, an American journalist is having lunch with a friend called Anstruther when he hears that the latter is about to visit his sister in Folbridge, Cornwall at her house called "Treane". Ryan has heard of the place and tells a story from the recent First World War when he heard of a German attempt to take over a convent during the Rape of Belgium. As soon as the soldiers entered the building it blew up, killing them all. It was proven that the soldiers had no high explosives on them and speaking with the locals afterwards Ryan was told of one of the nuns having miraculous powers and she brought down a lightning bolt from heaven that destroyed the convent and killed the Germans. All that was left of the building were two walls, one of which had a powder mark in the shape of a giant hound. This scared the local peasants who avoided the area after dark. The nun in question survived and went with other refugees to "Treane" in Cornwall and Anstruther confirms his sister did take in some Belgians at the time. In Cornwall, Anstru