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
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
176 books — 42 voters
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieMy Ántonia by Willa CatherHowards End by E.M. Forster
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
530 books — 775 voters

A Countess Below Stairs by Eva IbbotsonHattie Big Sky by Kirby LarsonRilla of Ingleside by L.M. MontgomeryIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersUprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
YA Fiction set in the 1910s
135 books — 79 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
21 books — 18 voters


Marques Rebelo
1914. A grande ambição carnavalesca era usar lança-perfume. Havia tubos para crianças, finos como dedos. Bisnagava-se até cachorro! Na terça-feira gorda, o chão da Avenida tinha um palmo de confetes, os préstitos eram o delírio do ouropel — clarins, marchas triunfais, fogos-de-bengala, caracolantes ginetes abrindo os cortejos — gato, baeta, carapicu! — bamboleantes sóis, planetas, constelações, Vulcano, Júpiter, Netuno, mitológicos deuses paralisados em gestos de sarrafo e papelão, giratórias e ...more
Marques Rebelo, O Trapicheiro

Anaïs Nin
The women cannot go out except to go to church or to the bullfight, and even that is unusual. I consider it a very ugly custom, and if I couldn't go out as I wished, I would leave this country [Spain], if only because of that one custom of the inhabitants. ...more
Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1

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