num_pages: 509
description: A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siècle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an invigorating look at the unfolding of an age.
language: English
title: The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
titlecomplete: The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
genres: History, Cultural, Philosophy, Criticism, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 90
publisher: University of Chicago Press