The Kiss (Klimt)
1908 · Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Two lovers kneel wrapped in a single gold robe, rectangles patterning his side of it and circles hers, on a meadow of flowers.
★ 8.9
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A Room with a View
1908 · 172 pages
Lucy Honeychurch is kissed among violets on a hillside outside Florence, and Forster makes the rest a sunlit comedy about whether English respectability is worth the lie it demands of her.
★ 7.0
Anne of Green Gables
1908 · 287 pages
Two aging siblings send for an orphan boy to work their Prince Edward Island farm and receive a talkative red-haired girl. Anne Shirley imagines the world into something better and never stops talking.
★ 7.0
The Wind in the Willows · 1908
Letters to a Young Poet
1908 · 123 pages
Ten letters answer a nineteen-year-old cadet who asked whether his poems were good. Rilke declines to judge them and tells him to go into himself and ask whether he must write.
★ 6.9
The Wind in the Willows
1908 · 224 pages
Mole abandons his spring cleaning for the river, and falls in with Rat, Badger, and the reckless Toad, who wrecks motorcar after motorcar. Grahame built the warmest world in English fiction.
★ 6.6
The Football Players
1908 · Guggenheim, New York City
Moustached men in striped jerseys leap for a ball among autumn trees, playing the new game of rugby as though it were slow ritual.
★ 5.7
1908
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1908
Jack Norworth scribbled the lyric on a subway ride, years before he saw an actual major league game.
★ 4.9
The Wind in the Willows · 1908