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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1918 was the year that World War I ended; Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed in Russia; and 22 million people died in a worldwide influenza epidemic.


Significant Book of 1918:
Willa Cather's My Ántonia

BOOK Cather celebrates the pioneer spirit in this famous portrait of an Eastern European immigrant settled in Nebraska, worn down but not defeated by her life. "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as MY ÁNTONIA." --H. L. Mencken

  Significant Music of 1918:
 Sergei Prokofiev's Classical Symphony

BOOK Sergei Prokofiev charmed a St. Petersburg audience with the first performance of his CLASSICAL SYMPHONY, a sparkling homage to the music of Haydn and Mozart.




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