Buddenbrooks
1901 · 731 pages
Four generations of a north German grain family run the firm, growing more refined and less fit to survive. Mann counts every dinner and funeral until the decline turns personal.
★ 8.0
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★ 6.8
Kim
1901 · 240 pages
Kim, a white orphan of the Lahore streets, serves two masters: a Tibetan lama searching for a sacred river, and the British officers who train him for the spy war against Russia.
★ 6.6
Up From Slavery
1901 · 156 pages
Born enslaved in Virginia, Washington built Tuskegee from nothing and wrote it up as a parable of self-help. His bargain with white America, separate as the fingers, split Black politics.
★ 6.5
Pyramid of Skulls
1901 · Private collection
Four skulls stacked on a tabletop and lit straight on. Cézanne kept coming back to the skull in his last years, never this frontally.
★ 5.9
Child with a Dove
1901 · Private collection
A child holding a white dove with a colored ball at its feet, painted just as Picasso's palette was cooling toward blue.
★ 5.2
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1901 · 80 pages
Peter's father went into Mr. McGregor's garden and came out as a pie. Peter goes anyway. Potter sized her book to a child's hands and painted every radish and watering can herself.
★ 5.0
1901
Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley · 1901
On the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together.
1901 State of the Union Address · 1901
1901