WThe Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. Twain never compiled these writings and dictations into a publishable form in his lifetime. Despite indications from Twain that he did not want his autobiography to be published for a century, he serialised some Chapters from My Autobiography during his lifetime and various compilations were published during the 20th century. However it was not until 2010, in the 100th anniversary year of Twain's death, that the first volume of a comprehensive collection, compiled and edited by The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, was published.
WThe Autumn of the Middle Ages, The Waning of the Middle Ages, or Autumntide of the Middle Ages, is the best-known work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.
WThe British Empire: A survey is a series of twelve books, each self-contained, published for educational purposes during the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, London, by Collins in 1924, following the request of the Exhibition's management towards the Imperial Studies Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute to create this work.
WCorydon is a book by André Gide consisting of four Socratic dialogues on homosexuality. The name of the book comes from Virgil's pederastic character Corydon. Parts of the text were separately privately printed from 1911 to 1920, and the whole book appeared in its French original in France in May 1924 and in the United States in 1950. It is available in an English translation (ISBN 0-252-07006-2) by the poet Richard Howard.
WDemocracy and Leadership is a book by Irving Babbitt, with a foreword by Russell Kirk. It was published by Liberty Fund Inc., and first printed in 1924.
WFoundations of Leninism is a 1924 collection by Joseph Stalin of nine lectures he delivered at Sverdlov University that year. It was published by the Soviet newspaper, Pravda.
WThe Golden Wattle Cookery Book is a popular Australian recipe book which was first published in Perth, Western Australia in 1924.
WThe Historical Novel is a 1924 book by Herbert Butterfield. It originated in an undergraduate essay and gained the Le Bas Prize for Butterfield. It was originally published by Cambridge University Press, one of the conditions for the prize.
WHistory of the American Frontier is a book by Frederic L. Paxson originally published in 1924 by Houghton Mifflin which won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for History.
WKarnovs Lovssamling is a compilation that contains all significant laws of Denmark. The laws are commented on with interpretations, rulings, administrative decisions and references to literature. In addition, the compilation is updated following legislative changes, so the work the current laws with changes in a single version.
WLessons of October is a polemical essay of about 60 printed pages in length by Leon Trotsky, first published in Moscow in October 1924 as the preface to the third volume of his Collected Works. The essay was harshly critical of the purported revolutionary failings of Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, two key members of the collective leadership which briefly ruled Soviet Russia in the months after the death of V.I. Lenin. Publication of the essay was used as a pretext for the Soviet leadership to isolate and attack Trotsky, whom the leadership mutually perceived as a threat to accede to supreme power.
WMr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf published in 1924 which explores modernity.
WMy Further Disillusionment in Russia is a 1924 non-fiction book by Emma Goldman, her continuation of My Disillusionment in Russia, the original publication in which the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including the Afterword.
WThe New Course was a 1924 brochure by Bolshevik political leader Leon Trotsky. Frequently reprinted in various European and Asian language over subsequent decades, the tract is considered a first explicit statement of the Left Opposition within the ruling All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) criticizing a trend towards bureaucracy and an attenuation of worker control over the political process.
WSi le grain ne meurt is the autobiography of the French writer André Gide. Published in 1924, it recounts the life of Gide from his childhood in Paris until his engagement with his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux in 1895.
WThe Story of a Great Schoolmaster is a 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson (1857–1922) by H. G. Wells. It is the only biography Wells wrote. Sanderson was a personal friend, having met Wells in 1914 when his sons George Philip ('Gip'), born in 1901, and Frank Richard, born in 1903, became pupils at Oundle School, of which Sanderson was headmaster from 1892 to 1922. After Sanderson died while giving a lecture at University College London at which he was introduced by Wells, the famous author agreed to help produce a biography to raise money for the school. But in December 1922, after disagreements emerged with Sanderson's widow about his approach to the subject, Wells withdrew from the official biography and published his own work separately.
WThe Trauma of Birth is a 1924 book by the psychoanalyst Otto Rank. It was first published in English translation in 1929. It is Rank's most popular book. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, reacted critically to The Trauma of Birth, responding to Rank's ideas in his own work.
WVan Dale's Great Dictionary of the Dutch Language, called Dikke Van Dale [ˈdɪkə vɑn ˈdaːlə] for short, is the leading dictionary of the Dutch language. The latest edition was published in 2015.
WThe Walls and Gates of Peking is a book written by Osvald Sirén, originally published in English with a run of 800 copies by The Bodley Head in London in 1924. It provides historical records of the walls and gates of Beijing and has 109 photos taken by Osvald Siren and 53 architectural drawings of gates made by Chinese artists.
WA Year of Prophesying collects 55 newspaper columns written by H.G. Wells in 1923 and 1924.