1914


Dubliners
The Lifeboat
Kokoro
Platero y yo
The Dead
Niebla
The Trial
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Summer Before the War
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
The Guns of August
Land of Marvels
Spoon River Anthology
When the Day Comes (Timeless, #1)
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Tragedy in Two Acts with a Prologue and Epilogue
The Trigger by Tim ButcherAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe War in Our Hearts by Eva SeylerThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
WWI Good Reads
73 books — 56 voters

Dubliners by James JoyceTik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank BaumKokoro by Natsume SōsekiThe Revolt of the Angels by Anatole FrancePenrod by Booth Tarkington
Best Books 1914
49 books — 20 voters
Peter Pan by J.M. BarrieThe Magic City by E. NesbitThe Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Magic World by E. Nesbit
Children's Fantasy of the 1910s
22 books — 19 voters

Robert Anton Wilson
In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.
Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

Wyndham Lewis
The Press in 1914 had no Cinema, no Radio, and no Politics: so the painter could really become a 'star'. There was nothing against it. Anybody could become one, who did anything funny. And Vorticism was replete with humour, of course; it was acclaimed the best joke ever. Pictures, I mean oil-paintings, were 'news'. Exhibitions were reviewed in column after column. And no illustrated paper worth its salt but carried a photograph of some picture of mine or of my 'school', as I have said, or one of ...more
Wyndham Lewis, Blasting and Bombardiering: Autobiography

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