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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