1905 in literature

1905 in literature

The year 1905 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*The first of several chapters of "I Am a Cat" (吾輩は猫である) by Natsume Sōseki are published serially in "Hototogisu".
*Neil Munro begins publishing his "Vital Spark" stories in the "Glasgow Evening News".

New books

*Edwin Lester Linden Arnold - ""
*L. Frank Baum - "Queen Zixi of Ix"
*Rhoda Broughton - "A Waif's Progress"
*Frances Hodgson Burnett - "A Little Princess"
*Mary Boykin Chesnut - "A Diary from Dixie"
*Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"
*Antonio Fogazzaro - "The Saint"
*E. M. Forster - "Where Angels Fear to Tread"
*W. H. Hudson - "A Little Boy Lost"
*Jack London - "White Fang"
*George Moore - "The Lake"
*Baroness Orczy
**"The Scarlet Pimpernel"
**"The Case of Miss Elliot"
**"By The Gods Beloved"
*Hjalmar Söderberg - "Doctor Glas"
*Mark Twain - "King Leopold's Soliloquy"
*Jules Verne
**"Invasion of the Sea"
**"The Lighthouse at the End of the World"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "The Marriage of William Ashe"
*H.G. Wells - "Kipps"
*Edith Wharton - "The House of Mirth"

New drama

*Harley Granville-Barker - "The Voysey Inheritance"
*Sacha Guitry - "Nono"
*J.M. Synge - "The Well of the Saints

Non-fiction

*G. K. Chesterton
**"Heretics"
**"Orthodoxy"

Births

* January 31 - John O'Hara, writer (d. 1970)
* February 2 - Ayn Rand, author (d. 1982)
* February 7 - Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)
* February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer.
* May 16 - H. E. Bates, novelist
* May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
* June 20 - Lillian Hellman, dramatist
* July 25 - Elias Canetti, novelist
* September 5 - Arthur Koestler, novelist and social philosopher
* October 15 - C. P. Snow, novelist
* November 11 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of the Republic of Ireland, 1973-74
* November 30 - John Dickson Carr, crime writer
* December 4 - Munro Leaf, children's author
* December 21 - Anthony Powell, British novelist, (d. 2000)
* "date unknown" - Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet

Deaths

*January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher
*February 15 - General Lew Wallace, author of ""
*March 20 - Antonin Proust, journalist
*March 25 - Jules Verne, author
*May 23 - Mary Livermore, journalist
*August 22 - David Binning Monro, expert on Homer
*September 18 - George MacDonald, author
*October 28 - Alphonse Allais, humorist
*December 3 - John Bartlett, publisher
*December 9 - Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb classical commentator
*December 12 - William Sharp, poet, biographer and novelist
*December 29 - Creeve Roe, poet
*"date unknown" - R. C. Lehmann, editor of "Punch" magazine

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz


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