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The year 1899 in literature involved some significant new books.

EVENTS

Edgar Rice Burroughs begins working in his father's business.

Rainer Maria Rilke travels to Moscow to meet Leo Tolstoy .

Arthur Machen 's wife Amy dies after a long illness, an event that has a devastating effect on him.

The Irish Literary Theatre is founded by W. B. Yeats , Augusta, Lady Gregory , George Moore and Edward Martyn

NEW BOOKS

Machado De Assis - '' Dom Casmurro ''

René Bazin - '' La Terre Qui Meurt ''

René Boylesve - '' Demoiselle Cloque ''

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - '' His Darling Sin ''

Rhoda Broughton

---'' Foes In Law ''

---'' The Game And The Candle ''

Charles Waddell Chesnutt - '' The Conjure Woman ''

Mary Cholmondeley - '' Red Pottage ''

Kate Chopin - '' The Awakening ''

Ralph Connor - '' The Sky Pilot ''

Margaret Deland - '' Old Chester Tales ''

Arthur Conan Doyle - '' The Man With The Twisted Lip ''

Géza Gárdonyi - '' Egri Csillagok ''

Maxim Gorky - '' Foma Gordyeeff ''

G. A. Henty - '' The Golden Canon ''

Elbert Hubbard - '' A Message To Garcia ''

Arthur Morrison - '' To London Town ''

Frank Norris

---'' Blix ''

---'' McTeague ''

Leo Tolstoy - '' Resurrection ''

Émile Zola - '' Fécondité ''

NEW DRAMA

Anton Chekov - '' Uncle Vanya ''

Leon Kobrin - ''Minna or, The Ruined Family from Downtown''

POETRY

Stéphane Mallarmé - ''Poésies'' (posthumously published)

NON-FICTION

Percy Dearmer - '' The Parson's Handbook ''

John Dewey - '' The School And Society ''

BIRTHS

January 17 - Nevil Shute , novelist

February 23 - Erich Kästner , children's author

March 25 - Jacques Audiberti (d. 1965)

April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov , novelist (d. 1977 )

May 8 - Friedrich Hayek , social scientist

July 21

--- Ernest Hemingway , novelist (d. 1961 )

--- Hart Crane , poet (d. 1932)

August 9 - P. L. Travers , ''Mary Poppins'' author

August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges (d. 1986 )

August 27 - C. S. Forester , adventure novelist (d. 1966)

November 10 - Kate Seredy , children's author

December 16 - Noel Coward , playwright (d. 1973 )

December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe , philosopher (d. 1990)

DEATHS

February 10 - Archibald Lampman , poet

March 16 - Alexander Balloch Grosart , literary editor

May 1 - Ludwig Büchner , philosopher

May 16 - Francisque Sarcey , journalist and theatre critic

June 7 - Augustin Daly , dramatist and theatre manager

June 30 - E. D. E. N. Southworth , novelist

July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.

August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill , English-born author of "Canadiana"

October 25 - Grant Allen , author

November 13 - Arthur Giry , historian

December 22 - Dwight L. Moody , preacher and publisher

''date unknown''

--- Anna Swanwick , feminist writer

AWARDS