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EVENTS

'' Ermete Novelli establishes the Casa Di Goldoni at Rome, in imitation of the Comédie Française .

NEW BOOKS

'' Baa Baa, Black Sheep '' - Rudyard Kipling

'' Eleanor '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' Il Fuoco '' (''The Flame of Life'') - Gabriele D'Annunzio

'' The Heart's Highway '' - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

'' The Infidel '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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'' Lord Jim '' - Joseph Conrad

'' Love And Mr Lewisham '' - H. G. Wells

'' The Master Christian '' - Marie Corelli

'' Monsieur Beaucaire '' - Booth Tarkington

'' A New Wonderland '' - L. Frank Baum

'' Sister Carrie '' - Theodore Dreiser

'' Three Men On The Bummel '' - Jerome K. Jerome

'' Unleavened Bread '' - Robert Grant

'' Whilomville Stories '' - Stephen Crane

''The Wild Knight and Other Poems'' - G. K. Chesterton

'' The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz '' - L. Frank Baum

NEW DRAMA

Anton Chekhov - '' Uncle Vanya ''

August Strindberg - '' The Dance Of Death (Dödsdansen)''

BIRTHS

January 9 - Emmanuel D'Astier , journalist

February 19 - Giorgos Seferis , poet

February 22 - Sean O'Faolain , short story writer

April 19 - Richard Hughes , novelist

April 24 - Elizabeth Goudge , novelist and children's author

May 1 - Ignazio Silone , novelist

June 29 - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry , novelist

July 18 - Nathalie Sarraute , Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999 )

July 24 - Zelda Fitzgerald , wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald

September 7 - Taylor Caldwell , novelist

September 9 - James Hilton , novelist

October 16 - Edward Ardizzone , children's writer and illustrator

November 8 - Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949 ), '' Gone With The Wind '' author.

November 19 - Anna Seghers , novelist

December 16 - V. S. Pritchett , short story writer

DEATHS

January 20 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825 ), English writer.

January 29 - John Ruskin , critic

January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess Of Queensberry , nemesis of Oscar Wilde

February 23 - Ernest Dowson , poet

April 23 - Charles Isaac Elton , historian

June 3 - Mary Kingsley , travel writer

June 4 - Edwards Amasa Park , theologian

June 5 - Stephen Crane (b. 1871 ), American writer.

August 16 - Eça De Queirós , novelist

August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844 ), German philosopher.

August 28 - Henry Sidgwick , philosopher

November 30 - Oscar Wilde , poet and dramatist

AWARDS