Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, the New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. Brimming with remarkable reportage and photography, this tribute collects interesting reviews, anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway, along with contributions by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, and Nora Ephron, plus an interview with Arthur Conan Doyle.