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EVENTS

Oscar Wilde introduces his new drama, '' The Importance Of Being Earnest ''

NEW BOOKS

'' Almayer's Folly '' - Joseph Conrad

'' The Altar Of The Dead '' - Henry James

'' The British Barbarians '' - Grant Allen

'' The Brushwood Boy '' - Rudyard Kipling

'' Chronicles Of Martin Hewitt '' - Arthur Morrison

'' The Coming Of Theodora '' - Eliza Orne White

'' En Route '' - Joris-Karl Huysmans

'' I Misteri Della Jungla Nera '' - Emilio Salgari

'' Jude The Obscure '' - Thomas Hardy

'' Lilith '' - George MacDonald

'' Master And Man '' - Leo Tolstoy

'' Pharaoh '' - Bolesław Prus

'' The Queen In Yellow '' - Robert W. Chambers

'' Quo Vadis '' - Henryk Sienkiewicz

'' The Red Badge Of Courage '' - Stephen Crane

'' Rose Of Dutcher's Coolly '' - Hamlin Garland

'' Scylla Or Charybdis? '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' The Second Jungle Book '' - Rudyard Kipling

'' Sons Of Fire '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' The Sorrows Of Satan '' - Marie Corelli

'' The Time Machine '' - H. G. Wells

'' The Woman Who Did '' - Grant Allen

BIRTHS

February 28 - Marcel Pagnol , novelist

March 29 - Ernst Jünger , author (+ 1998 )

April 23 - Ngaio Marsh , novelist

May 9 - Lucian Blaga , poet and philosopher

May 19 - Charles Sorley , war poet (d. 1915)

June 16 - Warren Lewis , historian, brother of C. S. Lewis and Inkling

July 14 - F. R. Leavis , critic

July 24 - Robert Graves , writer (+ 1985 )

September 21 – Sergei Yesenin , Russian poet (d. 1925 )

October 17 - C. H. B. Kitchin , novelist

October 31 - Basil Liddell Hart , military historian (d. 1970)

November 1 - David Jones , poet and artist

November 16 - Michael Arlen , novelist and short story writer (d. 1956)

December 1 - Henry Williamson , ''Tarka the Otter'' author

December 14 - Paul Éluard , Surrealist poet

''date unknown'' - Vivian De Sola Pinto , poet, memoirist, historian, etc.

DEATHS

January 15 - Lady Charlotte Guest , translator of the Mabinogion

April 3 - Gustav Freytag , novelist and dramatist

August 5 - Friedrich Engels , socialist writer

November 4 - Eugene Field , children's author

November 27 - Alexandre Dumas, Fils

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