It is very loosely based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles ( 1936 ).

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel Burmese Days ( 1934 ) and the essays " A Hanging " ( 1931 ) and " Shooting an Elephant " ( 1936 ).

These experiences provided background for the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying ( 1936 ).

After his retirement in 1936, he traveled to Cyprus, penning the novel A Goddess Arrives before returning to England.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

The sales of Margaret Mitchell's novel in the summer of 1936, at the virtually unprecedented price of three dollars, reached about one million by the end of December.

Ralph Thompson, a book reviewer for The New York Times, was critical of the length of the novel, and wrote in June 1936:

* Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn ( 1936 ) – a novel about both smugglers and wreckers in CornwallPoster for an 1896 American production of Carmen

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell.

By 1935, Wright had completed his first novel, Cesspool, published as Lawd Today ( 1963 ), and in January 1936 his story " Big Boy Leaves Home " was accepted for publication in New Caravan.

At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.

* The 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man.

The novel was adapted for the stage in 1934 by Sidney Howard and filmed in 1936 by William Wyler.

* A novel by Irène Némirovsky published in 1936

In the case of the Big Sleep the two main stories that formed the core of the novel were Killer in the Rain published in 1935 and The Curtain published in 1936.

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.

Parts of Margaret Mitchell's epic 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the famous 1939 motion picture Gone with the Wind were set in Clayton County, including the location of the fictional plantation, Tara.

* The worship of Yemanjá by the fishermen of Bahia, Brazil, is a central element of the 1936 Modernist novel Mar Morto ( Dead Sea ) by the famous Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, himself a native of that state.

Poster for the WPA stage adaptation of It Can't Happen Here, October 27, 1936 Written with the goal of hurting Long's chances in the 1936 election, Lewis's novel outfits President Berzelius Windrip with a private militia, concentration camps, and a chief of staff who sounds like Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

* Walter D. Edmonds ' novel, Drums Along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), recounts the story of Adam Helmer's run to save the village during the American Revolutionary War, together with an overview of the Germans ' colonial settlement along the river.

* The frontier area Deerfield is the first home of the fictitious Gilbert ( Gil ) Martin in Walter D. Edmunds novel, Drums along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), covering the period 1776-1784.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

Typewriter Olivetti Studio 42 designed by the Bauhaus-alumnus Alexander Schawinsky in 1936

Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.

Growth was limited by economic conditions caused by the great depression but thanks in part to the introduction of the metal can in 1936 Budweiser ’ s sales began to climb again.

This time the Italians employed vastly superior military technology such as tanks and aircraft, as well as chemical warfare, the Ethiopian forces were soundly defeated by May 1936.

Following the war, Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years ( 1936 – 41 ), before eventually being driven out during World War II by British Empire and Ethiopian patriot forces.

Modern Times ( film ) | Modern Times ( 1936 ), described by Jérôme Larcher as a " grim contemplation on the automatization of the individual "

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

In the following, Marvin Minsky defines the numbers to be computed in a manner similar to those defined by Alan Turing in 1936, i. e. as " sequences of digits interpreted as decimal fractions " between 0 and 1:

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

However, in 1936, the geologists John D. Boon and Claude C. Albritton Jr. revisited Bucher's studies and concluded that the craters that he studied were probably formed by impacts.

The study was completed in 1936 and the ban lifted, at which point large-scale releases were undertaken ; by March, 1937, 62, 000 toadlets had been released into the wild.

This was followed by Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Two ( 1934 ) ( 2004 ; published in the US as The Bloody Crown of Conan ) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three ( 1935 – 1936 ) ( 2005 ; published in the US as The Conquering Sword of Conan ).

And in a proof-sketch added as an " Appendix " to his 1936 – 37 paper, Turing showed that the classes of functions defined by λ-calculus and Turing machines coincided.

The possibility of doing this had been suggested by the Princeton physicist Richard Beth in 1936.

* Sciences by Harvard University ( 1936 ),

From 1 April 1935 to 31 March 1936 was the period of greatest activity and work accomplished by the CCC program.

Enrollment had peaked at 505, 782 in about 2, 900 camps by 31 August 1935, followed by a reduction to 350, 000 enrollees in 2, 019 camps by 30 June 1936.