1913


Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Sons and Lovers
The Custom of the Country
Pygmalion
The Lodger
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
My Childhood
O Pioneers!
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
Petersburg
Le Grand Meaulnes
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, #1)
Laddie: A True Blue Story (Library of Indiana Classics)
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. PorterPygmalion by George Bernard ShawThe Custom of the Country by Edith WhartonO Pioneers! by Willa CatherSons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Best Books 1913
51 books — 28 voters
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorListening for Lions by Gloria WhelanHattie Big Sky by Kirby LarsonVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteAnastasia by Carolyn Meyer
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1910s
177 books — 42 voters

In the sleepy village of Lower Newton Falls, as they had promised their mother they would do the night before, the Lowery brothers [ages 12,10] rose early, ate their breakfast, packed their books, and headed straight for school. When a mile later they reached the turn in the lane that led to the schoolhouse, only Jack Lowery took it; Eddie [the younger brother] stopped and handed Jack his book bag. 'I'm not going,' said Eddie. 'What are you talking about?' 'I'm going to the [Brookline Golf] clu ...more
Mark Frost, The Greatest Game Ever Played

When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.” Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in
Claire B. Shaeffer, Sew Any Set-In Pocket

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