My Antonia
1918 · 166 pages
Jim Burden arrives orphaned in Nebraska and finds Antonia Shimerda, an immigrant girl whose family is barely surviving the winter. Cather writes the prairie so well the book reads like your own childhood.
★ 7.2
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Eminent Victorians
1918 · 288 pages
Four Victorian idols go under Strachey's scalpel: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, the headmaster Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon at Khartoum. The malice is so elegant that English biography never went back to reverence.
★ 7.0
The Education of Henry Adams
1918 · 560 pages
Adams writes his own life as another man's, grandson and great-grandson of presidents, educated for a world that vanished. A Paris dynamo strikes him with the force medieval pilgrims felt from the Virgin.
★ 6.6
Selected Poems
1918 · 320 pages
Under the Mirabeau Bridge the Seine runs on and the love does not. Apollinaire brought the machine age and the trenches into French verse, and coined the word that named surrealism.
★ 5.7