Centuries Until the 20th

Top 10 Books

1-The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
2-1984, George Orwell
3-Animal Farm, George Orwell
4-Ulysses, James Joyce
5-Catch-22, Joseph Heller
6-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
7-One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
8-On The Road, Jack Kerouac
9-The Diary of Anne Frank, Anna Frank
10-To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee

Literature on the XX Century

The dawning of a new century marked a distinct change in the style and subjects of literature. Rural, agrarian lifestyles were fast becoming a thing of the past as industrialization made factory work the norm, and many people began to feel isolated despite living in big cities. Writers who identified as “modernists” reflected this new sense of isolation and displacement in their works. The entire Western world was also deeply affected by the devastation of World Wars I and II, and writers responded by evaluating humanity's seemingly boundless inhumanity. Women and minority voices became more prominent in the 1930s and beyond, further expanding the canon. The Beat Generation began in the late 1940s and writers reflected the growing trend of anti-conformist thought. By centuries end, Generation X writers were inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the decline of imperialism but were often seen as cynical and self-serving.

Facts:

1. Many critics consider F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1923) the best novel of the twentieth century. There are an equal number of critics, however, who insist that James Joyce’s Ulysses (1921) is the best novel.
2. Modernism lasted about forty years and includes authors such as Vladmir Nabakov (Russia), James Joyce (Ireland), Virginia Woolf (England), and Ernest Hemingway (American).
3. The Holocaust of World War II inspired many works by actual survivors, including Night by Elie Wiesel and The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kozinski.
4. The moniker “The Beat Generation” was coined by author Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road. The movement also includes poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlingetti.
5. Hemingway’s observation that “a man can be destroyed but not defeated” might be the identifying characteristic of literature in the twentieth-century, a time of radical shifts as well as enduring artistic spirit.

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Conclusion

The 20th Century was an age that started in the 1990's and lasted to the beginning of 2000 that changed radically people's way of living, continues progress led to many political, social, cultural, scientific and economical changes that some of them were used in some ways for the bad will and others were progressive and made everyones lifestyle better.

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Science and Technology

Science in the 1990's tempted a great shock in people's way and style of living, new theories established by the new scientist and philosophers led to a new way of seeing every day's life. With this new achievements in science, technology increased as well and new machines made humankind lifestyle differ from other times in history.

Arts and Culture

During the XX Century the arts and culture took advantage of the new technologies and created new ways to manifest emotions and rather feelings of the worldwide progress nor only in politics but also in science and culture, with the appearance of new media such as video, modern music and arts made this age a period of social and as said before cultural and artistic "revolution" through the world.

Powerful Nations

At the beginning of the period, Britain was the world's most powerful nation^[2]; having acted as the world's policeman for the past century. Fascism, a movement which grew out of post-war angst and which accelerated during the Great Depression of the 1930s, gained momentum in Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in World War II (1939–1945), sparked by Nazi Germany's aggressive expansion at the expense of its neighbors. Meanwhile, Japan had rapidly transformed itself into a technologically advanced industrial power. Its military expansion into eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean culminated in a surprise attack on the United States, bringing it into World War II. After having had several years of dramatic military success, Germany was defeated in 1945, having been repelled and invaded by the Soviet Union from the east and invaded from the west by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Free France. The war ended with the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. Japan later became a U.S. ally with a powerful economy based on consumer goods and trade. Germany was divided between the western powers and the Soviet Union; all areas recaptured by the Soviet Union (East Germany and eastward) were essentially transitioned into Soviet puppet states under communist rule. Meanwhile, western Europe was influenced by the American Marshall Plan and made a quick economic recovery, becoming major allies of the United States under capitalist economies and relatively democratic governments.

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XX Century History (Summary)

The early arms races of the 20th century escalated into a war which involved many powerful nations: World War I (1914–1918). Technological advancements changed the way war was fought, as new inventions such as machine guns, tanks, chemical weapons, grenades, and military aircraft modified tactics and strategy. After more than four years of trench warfare in western Europe, and 20 million dead, those powers who had formed the Triple Entente (France, Britain, and Russia, later replaced by the United States and joined by Italy) emerged victorious over the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). In addition to annexing much of the colonial possessions of the vanquished states, the Triple Entente exacted punitive restitution payments from their former foes, plunging Germany in particular into economic depression. The Tsarist regime of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II was overthrown during the conflict and Russia was transitioned into the first ever communist state, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were dismantled at the war's conclusion.

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