Events
- July 30 - Philip Larkin makes a train journey from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings.
- August 27 - First hardback edition of The Guinness Book of Records published in London.
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris; however, it takes until 1958 to be published in the United States.
- An article in the British Journal of Education criticises the novels of Enid Blyton as formula fiction.
- Jean Cocteau is elected to both the Académie française and the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.
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“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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