1913: The Year Before the Storm

Wouldn’t you like Florian Illies’s book “1913. The Summer of an Entire Century” not to end? The author felt the same.

For many years he searched for and collected new exciting stories from that incredible year. The result is what you hold in your hands. In the continuation of the international bestseller “The Tizzy of the 20th Century,” as the press once put it, the story unfolds into a large-scale diorama: old heroes are shown from a new angle; Fernando Pessoa, Maxim Gorky, Jack London, and many other events, phenomena, and people who helped create modernity join them.

Expect new stories full of love and wit—so incredible they could only be true. And try, together with the author, to find out where exactly the summer of the whole century ends.