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Top 10 Best Books of 1920 : R.U.R., The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Great Impersonation, The Wreath, Main Street, The Cats of Ulthar, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths, A Voyage to Arcturus, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales

R.U.R.
AuthorKarel Čapek
ISBN0486419266
R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot." Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt,...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
AuthorHugh Lofting
ISBN0060775971
Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends....
The Great Impersonation
AuthorE. Phillips Oppenheim
EPO was a bon vivant, worldling and womanizer who wrote about 60 thriller-espionagers in the early 20thC. His characters are rich, glamorous -- both the good and the bad. Quirky readers like myself have even collected his oft dated but delightfully woozy adventures. (I have about 15). Some are not terrif,...
The Wreath
AuthorSigrid Undset
ISBN0141180412
Originally published in Norwegian in 1920 and set in fourteenth-century Norway, The Wreath chronicles the courtship of a headstrong and passionate young woman and a dangerously charming and impetuous man. Undset re-creates the historical backdrop in vivid detail, immersing readers in the day-to-day...
Main Street
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0375753141
With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer.

Main Street, the story of an idealistic young woman's attempts to reform her small town, brought Lewis immediate...
The Cats of Ulthar
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft

This early Dunsanian tale, first published in the amateur literary journal Tryout (1920), resembles the work of Dunsany more deeply than mere style: although distant and ironic, it somehow manages to convey the spirit of naïve folklore. Like many of our ancient myths, it answers a question:...
The Statement of Randolph Carter
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft

This early story—written in 1919, published in the amateur journal The Vagrant in 1920—is a simple but thoroughly effective tale of terror, based on one of Lovecraft’s dreams. Technically it could be considered part of Lovecraft’s Dunsanian Dream Cycle, since its hero Randolph Carter...
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
AuthorPadraic Colum
ISBN0689868855
Before time as we know it began, gods and goddesses lived in the city of Asgard. Odin All Father crossed the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard. Thor defended Asgard with his mighty hammer. Mischievous Loki was constantly getting into trouble with the other gods, and dragons and giants walked...
A Voyage to Arcturus
AuthorDavid Lindsay
ISBN0803280041
A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into...
Traditional Irish Fairy Tales
AuthorJames Stephens
ISBN0486291669
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'

A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...
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