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1925

Showing 45 works across all media from 1925

Fiction · Modernism

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 · 208 pages

Gatsby throws enormous parties hoping the woman he loved will wander into one. Fitzgerald made the Jazz Age America's myth of itself, and the last page is the most beautiful in American writing.

★ 9.4
Fiction · Modernism

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
1925 · 197 pages

Clarissa Dalloway buys the flowers herself and gives a party, one June day in London, while a veteran wrecked by the war comes apart nearby. Woolf moves between strangers' minds without warning.

★ 9.0
Comedy

The Gold Rush

Directed by Charlie Chaplin
1925

Chaplin said this was the film he wanted to be remembered for: the boiled boot eaten like a banquet, the dancing dinner rolls, and a cabin on a cliff edge.

★ 7.7
St. Louis BluesBessie Smith
Blues

St. Louis Blues

Bessie Smith
1925 · From The Complete Recordings

Armstrong's cornet answering every line Smith sings, with only a wheezing harmonium underneath, cut in New York in 1925.

★ 7.5
The Three Dancers
Genre painting

The Three Dancers

Pablo Picasso
1925 · Tate Modern, London

Picasso's classical calm breaks here into something jagged and violent, the limbs flung out almost crucified, set off by the death of an old friend.

★ 7.2
Fiction · Modernism

The Counterfeiters

Andre Gide
1925 · 467 pages

Every life in Gide's novel is a forgery: boys passing false coins, adults faking passions they do not feel, and a novelist inside the book writing a novel called The Counterfeiters.

★ 6.6
Fiction · Crime

An American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser
1925 · 972 pages

Clyde Griffiths, raised by street preachers and starving for money, gets a factory girl pregnant as a rich one turns toward him. Dreiser drew the lake that follows from a 1906 murder case.

★ 6.5
Fiction · Lyric poetry

Azaleas

Kim Sowol
1925 · 320 pages

A woman watches her lover go and promises to scatter azaleas in his path rather than weep. Kim Sowol put Korean folk-song rhythm into modern verse, and the whole country memorized him.

★ 5.4
Fiction · Comedy

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos
1925 · 160 pages

Lorelei Lee, a blonde from Arkansas, keeps a diary about the men who buy her diamonds and gives away far more than she knows. Edith Wharton called it the great American novel.

★ 4.8
Speech · Political speech

But there is another element, more important than all, without which there can not be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. That element lies in the heart of humanity. Unless the desire for peace be cherished there, unless this fundamental and only natural source of brotherly love be cultivated to its highest degree, all artificial efforts will be in vain. Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life.

Calvin Coolidge
Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925
★ 1.9
Speech · Political speech

Since its very outset, it has been found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political parties. That system would not have survived from generation to generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will. It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly. It is enough to know that nothing better has been devised.

Calvin Coolidge
Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925
★ 1.9
Speech · Political speech

It is necessary to keep the former experiences of our country both at home and abroad continually before us, if we are to have any science of government. If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations. We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change. We must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true course. If we examine carefully what we have done, we can determine the more accurately what we can do.

Calvin Coolidge
Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925
★ 1.9
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