Proust Pays to Publish His Masterpiece
Chapter 1

Global headlines and shifting empires

Chapter 2

The year music and art went wild

Chapter 3

Pages that changed the literary world

Chapter 4

The silent screen starts to roar

Chapter 5

Inventions that reshaped daily life

YOUR GOAL

Master of The year the modern world woke up

Ch 3 · Pages that changed the literary world
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schopenhauer Arthur Wynne invents the modern crossword puzzle.

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schopenhauer Proust's Swann's Way

They all said no, so he printed it himself, and changed the way we read forever!

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schopenhauer Rabindranath Tagore and his historic Nobel Prize in Literature.

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The birth of the modern crossword puzzle

schopenhauer Journalist Arthur Wynne invented the world's first 'word-cross' puzzle for a New York newspaper.

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A historic Nobel Prize for Rabindranath Tagore

schopenhauer Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Page Flip 1913
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schopenhauer Flip the pages to discover the music, books, and news that defined 1913.

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Fun Fact

The first crossword: The first crossword puzzle in 1913 did not have any black squares, using a blank center instead.

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Glossary
novel (noun)
A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism. In 1913, Marcel Proust published Swann's Way, the opening volume of his landmark novel.

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Gossip

If you could only read one book genre forever, which is it?

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Quiz

In which newspaper did the world's first crossword puzzle appear on December 21, 1913?

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schopenhauer Marcel Proust paid to publish his masterpiece Swanns Way.

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Which famous children's book character, a young orphan girl who plays the 'glad game,' was introduced in a 1913 novel?

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schopenhauer D.H. Lawrence shocked Edwardian society with his novel Sons and Lovers.

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Which British author published the controversial and emotionally intense novel 'Sons and Lovers' in 1913?

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What is the English title of Rabindranath Tagore's award-winning poetry collection published in 1912 and celebrated in 1913?

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Who was the first non-European writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1913?

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Which French author had to pay out of his own pocket to publish 'Swann's Way' in 1913?

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Quiz

Which French writer and philosopher published 'Alcools,' a highly influential collection of poetry with no punctuation, in 1913?

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What shape was the very first crossword puzzle published by Arthur Wynne in 1913?

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