Skip to content

Old Paper & Cats

Antiquarian and Classic Book Reviews

  • Reviews
  • Cats
  • U.P. Cat
  • Instagram

1938

The year of 1938 CE. This is the year before World War II begins.

Some facts about 1938:

  • The Huang He river floods, killing 400,000 and destroying thousands of kilometres of farmland
This time is part of the Interwar.

You are viewing 1938 reviews.

You can view all other eras/movements, or you can search by language/region, genre, editor/translator, book authors, or year of edition.


The Wall

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Interwar American Mystery

The Wall

The pace is nearly perfect, and the author is a master at giving just enough information and placing clues and events in the right places to keep the reader turning pages.

July 12, 2021June 24, 2024 by S. Hargrave — Comment on The Wall

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier
Interwar UK Literature

Rebecca

I do most of my work and most of my writing in front of the television and I always have. These days I still watch a lot of classic television, including The Carol Burnett Show. This is a review of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.

June 1, 2020June 24, 2024 by S. Hargrave — Comment on Rebecca
A towering stack of old books. The Old Paper & Cats icon.

Recent Reviews

  • Vegas
  • The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
  • Paris Vagabond
  • The Restraint of Beasts
  • Sylvia
  • A Book for Christmas
  • Secrets in the Snow
  • Moominland Midwinter
  • A Collection of Dylan Thomas
  • Two by Harper Lee

Books by Themes

Centenarians Diversity Essentials Favourites Film Ghosts Gothic Halloween Plague Books Road Trip War Winter Holidays Women Authors

Books by Genre

Adventure Children's Literature Comedy Crime Epistolary Essay Gonzo Journalism Graphic Novel Horror Journalism Literature Memoir Mystery Noir Non-Fiction Poetry Romance Short Story Theatre

Books by Era

19th Century 20th Century 1894 1919 1929 1935 1939 1940 1941 1945 1946 1947 1954 1955 1957 1958 1959 1962 1963 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1971 1972 1974 1977 1978 1979 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1991 1992 1993 1994 1998 2024 Contemporary Cross-Era Interwar Wartime

Books by Region

American Argentinian Australian Austrian Belarusian Belgian Brazilian Canadian Chinese Cuban Czech Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Haitian Hungarian International Italian Jamaican Japanese Mexican Nigerian Polish Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Swiss Taiwanese UK Ukranian Vietnamese

Books by Author

Alexander Pushkin Bảo Ninh Charles Dickens Chester Himes Dan J Marlowe Daphne du Maurier David Goodis Donald Edwin Westlake Dorothy B Hughes Dylan Thomas Edith Wharton Elias Canetti Fredric Brown Fyodor Dostoevsky Gary Indiana George Orwell Helen Garner Henry Van Dyke Horace McCoy Hunter S. Thompson James Baldwin James M. Cain Jane Ellen Harrison Jerome Lawrence Joan Didion Margaret Millar Mavis Gallant Osamu Dazai Patricia Highsmith Peter Handke Rainer Maria Rilke Robert E Lee Robert Graves Robert Shaplen Simone de Beauvoir SJ Perelman Sven Holm Sylvia Plath Timothy Findley Tove Jansson Ursula Parrott Various William Lindsay Gresham Yukio Mishima Zora Neale Hurston

Cats

A black cats with yellow eyes, sitting primly.
Wesker
A slightly overweight fawn tabby and some book stacks.
Bubastis
A calico tabby sits with its paws in the sunshine.
Jabberwocky
An orange tabby cat looks towards the ground.
Bandersnatch
A tortoiseshell cat sits primly with her paws together and holds her head high. She's wearing a golden bow tie with black-and-white polka dot accents.
Rusalka
© 2026 S. Hargrave from The Ugly Porcelain Cat