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An International Bestseller "An absolute gem of a book." -- The Observer Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century's most exciting year .?.?. It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring , and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented. It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka's love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in "one year" histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing

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Author

Florian Illies [Illies, Florian]

Publisher

Melville House Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612193526

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

3.76 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14