Books · 1912
Literary Giants, Lost Worlds, and Jungle Legends
In 1912, literature spanned from the prehistoric jungles of pulp fantasy to profound spiritual poetry and searing modern social realism. Readers witnessed the birth of enduring pop culture icons alongside masterpieces of international high modernism.
- Thomas Mann · Novella · Literary Classic
Der Tod in Venedig
A famous German author visits Venice and becomes tragically obsessed with an ethereal youth amid a fatal cholera epidemic.
- Arthur Conan Doyle · Sci-Fi · Landmark
The Lost World
Professor Challenger leads an expedition to an isolated South American plateau where prehistoric dinosaurs and ape-men still survive.
- E. R. Burroughs · Pulp · Fantasy Classic
Tarzan of the Apes
The legendary origin story of an orphaned English lord raised by apes in the African jungle became an immediate pop culture sensation.
- Rabindranath Tagore · Poetry · Classic
Gitanjali
A deeply spiritual collection of prose poems translated into English by Tagore, leading directly to his 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Zane Grey · Western · Bestseller
Riders of the Purple Sage
A definitive Western novel following gunfighter Lassiter and homestead owner Jane Withersteen as they defy persecution in southern Utah.
- J. W. Johnson · Novel · Influential Work
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Published anonymously, this groundbreaking novel explores race, passing, and African American identity in early twentieth-century America.
- Theodore Dreiser · Fiction · Classic
The Financier
The ruthless rise of ambition and wealth in post-Civil War Philadelphia inaugurates Theodore Dreiser's acclaimed Trilogy of Desire.
- Jean Webster · YA Novel · Bestseller
Daddy-Long-Legs
An endearing epistolary novel following an orphan girl who writes letters to the anonymous benefactor funding her college education.
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