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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1926 was the year that Hirohito became the new emperor of Japan; the Fascists became the state party of Italy; the Book-of-the-Month Club was founded; and both Rudolph Valentino and Harry Houdini died of peritonitis.


Significant Book of 1926:
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

BOOK Set in Paris and Pamplona, Spain, this novel was Hemingway’s first bestseller, the one that put him on the map. Through his story of expatriates in Europe, Hemingway portrayed the post-World War I generation and remodeled American fiction in the process.

  Significant Music of 1926:
 Edgard Varèse's Amériques

BOOK Leopold Stokowski conducted the world premiere of Edgard Varèse's AMÉRIQUES in Philadelphia. A wild work for a mammoth orchestra, Varèse's music takes the savagery of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" up a few notches.




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