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1926
 
    
Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns       
1926
 
    
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising       
1926
 
    
Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh       
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1926
 
    
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders       
1926
 
    
Franz Kafka's novel The Castle is published posthumously       
1926
 
    
Dorothy Parker has a best-seller with her first collection of verse, Enough Rope       
1926
 
    
US author Ernest Hemingway succeeds with his second novel, The Sun also Rises (also known as Fiesta)       
1927
 
    
French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux       
1927
 
   
Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene      
1927
 
    
US author Thornton Wilder achieves world-wide success with his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey