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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1916 was the year that Margaret Sanger opened a birth control clinic; the seven-day Easter Rebellion against British rule ended with the suppression of Irish revolt; and President Wilson was narrowly reelected.


Significant Book of 1916:
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

BOOK This partly autobiographical novel follows the passage of young Stephen Dedalus from university student to "independent" artist. A classic coming-of-age novel, PORTRAIT is a tour de force of style and technique and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society.

  Significant Music of 1916:
 Charles Ives's Symphony No. 4

BOOK Maverick American composer Charles Ives completed his Fourth Symphony, a vast quilt of hymn tunes and popular songs stitched together with a tight, often dissonant symphonic thread.




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