1900- The bridge builder- the bridge builder is a poem written by Will Allen Dromqoule. It has an even grace plaques on real bridges such as the bellows falls, Vermont Vilas bridge in New Hampshire. It is quoted frequently, mostly in religious context or in writing stressing a moral lesson.
1910- The world set free by H.G. Wells (1913), and in 1914 world war 1 began in Europe.
1920- in 1924 a passage to India by E.M. Forster, and killing more than 20 million people, the rodent- borne bubonic plaque hit India in 1920.
1930- Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell in 1936, and How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie in 1936.