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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1928. ==Events== *January * *Mikhail Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' («Тихий Дон») begins serialization in the Soviet magazine ''Oktyabr''. * *Ford Madox Ford publishes ''Last Post'' in the U.K., last in his World War I tetralogy ''Parade's End'' published since 1924. *March 31 - Stockholm Public Library, designed by Gunnar Asplund, is opened. *April 19 - Publication of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' is completed. *Spring - George Orwell moves from London to Paris; his first articles as a professional writer are published later in the year. *June - The literary magazine ''Contemporáneos'' is first published in Mexico by Jaime Torres Bodet, giving a name to the group ''Los Contemporáneos''. *June 27 - English writer Evelyn Waugh marries Evelyn Gardner (daughter of Lady Winifred Burghclere) in St Paul's Church, Portman Square, London, with only Harold Acton, Alec Waugh (the author's brother) and Pansy Pakenham present and they make their home in a small flat in Canonbury Square, Islington. In September the author's first completed novel, the satire ''Decline and Fall'', is published by Chapman & Hall (of which his father Arthur is managing director); it reaches its 3rd printing by the end of the year. The marriage lasts until the following September. *July - D. H. Lawrence's ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' is published in Florence; it will not be published in an unexpurgated edition in Britain until 1960. *August 31 - ''The Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper''), adapted by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and composer Kurt Weill (with set designer Caspar Neher) from ''The Beggar's Opera'', receives its première at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin with Harald Paulsen and Lotte Lenya in the principal rôles. *September * *S. S. Van Dine publishes "Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories" in ''The American Magazine''. * *Leslie Charteris publishes ''Meet the Tiger'' in the U.K., the first adventure of Simon Templar, alias The Saint. Charteris will write dozens of novels and short stories featuring the character on a regular basis between 1928 and 1963, and others will continue the series until 1983. *September 21 - The Gorseth Kernow is set up at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall by Henry Jenner ("Gwas Myghal") and others. *October - Publication of 'Siburapha' (Kulap Saipradit)'s ''Luk Phu Chai'' ("A Real Man"), perhaps the first substantial original Thai novel. *Autumn - W. H. Auden goes to Berlin, where he is soon joined by Christopher Isherwood. *November–December - Erich Maria Remarque's antiwar novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'') is first published in the German newspaper ''Vossische Zeitung''. Hans Herbert Grimm's ''Schlump'' is published (anonymously) by Kurt Wolff in Berlin this year also. *November 1 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey, introduces the modern 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system for the Turkish language. *November 6 - Xu Zhimo writes his poem 再別康橋 (simplified Chinese 再别康桥, ''Zài Bié Kāngqiáo'', "On Leaving Cambridge Once More"). *November 9–16 - Radclyffe Hall's novel ''The Well of Loneliness'' (published on July 27 by Jonathan Cape in London with an appreciation by Havelock Ellis) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity (under the Hicklin test) due to its theme of lesbian love following a campaign by James Douglas in the ''Sunday Express'' newspaper. Other lesbian literature published in England this year remains unprosecuted: Elizabeth Bowen's novel ''The Hotel'', Virginia Woolf's fictional ''Orlando: A Biography'' and Compton MacKenzie's satirical ''Extraordinary Women''; Djuna Barnes' novel ''Ladies Almanack'', published in Paris, also alludes to the controversy. *December 9 - R. C. Sherriff's drama ''Journey's End'', set on the Western Front (World War I), is premièred by the Incorporated Stage Society at the Apollo Theatre in London with Laurence Olivier in a principal rôle. *December 19 - Italo Svevo (Aron Schmitz), returning from an Alpine health resort to Trieste, is involved in an automobile accident; he dies the next day leaving his novel ''Il Vegliardo'' ("The Old Man") unfinished in mid-word. *Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel ''Pather Panchali'' first appears as a serial in a Calcutta periodical. *The clerihew, the comic pseudo-biographical verse form associated with Edmund Clerihew Bentley, is mentioned in print for the first time.〔In ''The Week-end Book'' – ''Oxford English Dictionary''.〕 *It is estimated that one in four of all secular books printed and sold in England is written by Edgar Wallace.〔 〕 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「1928 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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