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1920
Showing 41 works across all media from 1920
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
The Second Coming · 1920

The Age of Innocence
1920 · 336 pages
Newland Archer, engaged to the right New York girl, falls for her cousin the Countess Olenska, back from a ruinous European marriage. Old New York moves against them without ever raising its voice.
★ 7.2

Crazy Blues
1920
Seventy-five thousand copies in two months, Perry Bradford's tune, and Smith's voice opening the record industry to Black audiences.
★ 6.8

Woman Combing Her Hair
1920 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Goyo oversaw every stage of his prints himself and finished only a handful before dying young. This is the one everyone knows.
★ 6.5

Main Street
1920 · 898 pages
Carol Milford marries a doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to civilize it. The town wins, and Lewis made Main Street a byword for everything narrow and self-satisfied in American life.
★ 6.1
Dulce et Decorum Est · 1920