1908 in literature

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The year 1908 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

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

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

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