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'' Adrift In The Pacific '' - Jules Verne

'' Aspern Papers '' - Henry James

'' L'Aveu, Drame En Un Acte En Prose '' - Sarah Bernhardt

'' The Boyhood Of Christ '' - Lew Wallace

'' The Black Arrow '' - Robert Louis Stevenson

'' Confessions Of A Young Man '' - George A. Moore

'' The Devil's Die '' - Grant Allen

'' The Fatal Three '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' Hard Tack And Coffee '' - John D. Billings

'' John Marr And Other Sailors '' - Herman Melville

'' Looking Backward '' - Edward Bellamy

'' Maiwa's Revenge '' - H. Rider Haggard

'' Master Of Ballantrae '' - Robert Louis Stevenson

'' Princess Casamassima '' - Henry James

'' Robbery Under Arms '' - Rolf Boldrewood

'' Robert Elsmere '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' Spring Days--A Prelude To Don Juan '' - George A. Moore

'' The White Man's Foot '' - Grant Allen

'' A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder '' - James De Mille

'' The Secret Doctrine '' - Helena Blavatsky

'' Under The Yoke '' - Ivan Vazov

BIRTHS

January 24 - Vicki Baum , writer

April 26 - Anita Loos , novelist, screenwriter

October 14 - Katherine Mansfield short story writer

October 16 - Eugene O'Neill , playwright

July 23 - Raymond Chandler , novelist, screenwriter

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite , Australia n illustrator

Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese writer

DEATHS

March 6 - Louisa May Alcott , American novelist

April 15 - Matthew Arnold , poet

May 12 - Edward Lear , poet

August 9 - Charles Cros , French poet

August 20 - Henry Richard , political writer

September 24 - Karl Von Prantl , philosopher

December 8 - Frederick Apthorp Paley , scholar

December 23 - Laurence Oliphant , travel writer

AWARDS