1908 in literature

1908 in literature

The year 1908 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.

New books

*Leonid Andreyev - "The Seven Who Were Hanged"
*Francis Aveling - "Arnoul the Englishman"
*L. Frank Baum - "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz"
*Arnold Bennett
**"Buried Alive"
**"The Old Wives' Tale"
*Algernon Blackwood - "John Silence, Physician Extraordinary"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "During Her Majesty's Pleasure"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Mamma"
*G. K. Chesterton - "The Man Who Was Thursday"
*Louisa Cooke Don Carlos - "A Battle in the Smoke"
*Marie Corelli - "Holy Orders"
*Anatole France - "Penguin Island"
*E. M. Forster - "A Room with a View"
*John Fox, Jr. - "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
*Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - "The Shoulders of Atlas"
*Kenneth Grahame - "The Wind in the Willows"
*Jeannie Gunn - "We of the Never Never"
*William Hope Hodgson - "The House on the Borderland"
*Jack London - "The Iron Heel"
*W. Somerset Maugham - "The Magician"
*Lucy Maud Montgomery - "Anne of Green Gables"
*Baroness Orczy - " The Elusive Pimpernel
*Beatrix Potter - "The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck"
*Mary Roberts Rinehart - "The Circular Staircase"
*Arthur Schnitzler - "Der Weg ins Freie"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "The Testing of Diana Mallory"
*H. G. Wells
**"A Modern Utopia"
**"The War in the Air"

New drama

*Maurice Maeterlinck - "L'Oiseau Bleu"
*Octave Mirbeau - "Le Foyer"
*Baroness Orczy -"Beau Brocade"
*Edward Sheldon - "Salvation Nell"
*J.M. Synge - "The Tinker's Wedding"

Poetry

*Edward Carpenter - "Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship"
*W. H. Davies - "Nature Poems"

Non-fiction

*Sarah Bernhardt - "My Double Life"
*G. K. Chesterton - "All Things Considered"
*Jack London - "War of the Classes"

Births

* January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
* January 18 - Jacob Bronowski, scientist and poet
* February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987)
* February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
* February 29 - Dee Brown, novelist and historian
* March 6 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine author
* March 22 - Louis L'Amour, author
* May 17 - Frederic Prokosch, novelist and poet
* May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet
* May 28 - Ian Fleming, author
* August 21 - M. M. Kaye, "Far Pavilions" author
* September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
* September 17 - John Creasey, author
* October 5 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer and director
* November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss

Deaths

* January 25 - Ouida, writer
* March 19 - Eduard Zeller, philosopher
* April 20 - Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian
* July 3 - Joel Chandler Harris
* July 28 - Otto Pfleiderer, theologian
* November 8 - Victorien Sardou, dramatist

Awards

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken
*Newdigate prize: Julian Huxley


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