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Modern Period

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  • Titanic Sinks

    Titanic Sinks

    This becomes the most famous ship wreck.
  • Beginning of Modern period

    Beginning of Modern period

    The period of modern literature begins here and lasts through 1939. This is the age of flappers and the Great Depression
  • Period: to

    Published Authors during the Moderns literary period

  • James Joyce publishes Ulysses

    James Joyce publishes Ulysses

    This is one of Joyce's best masterpieces.
  • The Great Gatsby is published

    The Great Gatsby is published

    F.Scott Fitzgerald publishes his most read novel. The novel is about Gatsby who tries to recapture a time in his youth. The setting is during the Jazz Age.
  • Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms

    Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms

    One of Hemingway's most famous novels is published on this date.
  • End of Modern perod

    End of Modern perod

    This time period of literature ends with Steinbeck publishing The Grapes of Wrath.
  • World War II begins

    World War II begins

    [World War II pictures and text](www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii)When the war begins, the world changes and the literature of the time reflects the events and emotions of WWII.