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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1909 was the year that Robert Peary arrived at the North Pole; Frank Lloyd Wright built the Robie House in Chicago, Illinois; and Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.


Significant Book of 1909:
Gertrude Stein's Three Lives

BOOK Stein was a central figure in the avant-garde world of Paris and helped influence the greatest painters and writers of the new century. In THREE LIVES, her first book (and some say her best), Stein investigates the lives of her three central characters.

  Significant Music of 1909:
 Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

BOOK Englishman Ralph Vaughan Williams completed the FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS, an ecstatic meditation on a hymn composed in 1567 by the Renaissance master.




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