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The year
1908 in literature
involved some significant new books.
EVENTS
June 18
-
Mark Twain
purchases a house in
Redding, Connecticut
.
NEW BOOKS
Leonid Andreyev
- ''
The Seven Who Were Hanged
''
Francis Aveling
- ''
Arnoul The Englishman
''
L. Frank Baum
- ''
Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz
''
Arnold Bennett
---''
Buried Alive
''
---''
The Old Wives' Tale
''
Algernon Blackwood
- ''
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
''
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- ''
During Her Majesty's Pleasure
''
Rhoda Broughton
- ''
Mamma
''
G. K. Chesterton
- ''
The Man Who Was Thursday
''
Louisa Cooke Don Carlos
- ''
A Battle In The Smoke
''
Marie Corelli
- ''
Holy Orders
''
Anatole France
- ''
Penguin Island
''
E. M. Forster
- ''
A Room With A View
''
John Fox, Jr.
- ''
The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine
''
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- ''
The Shoulders Of Atlas
''
Kenneth Grahame
- ''
The Wind In The Willows
''
William Hope Hodgson
- ''
The House On The Borderland
''
Jack London
- ''
The Iron Heel
''
W. Somerset Maugham
- ''
The Magician
''
Lucy Maud Montgomery
- ''
Anne Of Green Gables
''
Baroness Orczy
- ''
The Elusive Pimpernel
Beatrix Potter
- ''
The Tale Of Jemina Puddle-Duck
''
Arthur Schnitzler
- ''
Der Weg Ins Freie
''
Mary Augusta Ward
- ''
The Testing Of Diana Mallory
''
H. G. Wells
---''
A Modern Utopia
''
---''
The War In The Air
''
NEW DRAMA
Maurice Maeterlinck
- ''
L'Oiseau Bleu
''
Baroness Orczy
-''
Beau Brocade
''
Edward Sheldon
- ''
Salvation Nell
''
J.M. Synge
- ''
The Tinker's Wedding
''
POETRY
Edward Carpenter
- ''Iolaus: Anthology of Friendship''
W. H. Davies
- ''Nature Poems''
NON-FICTION
Sarah Bernhardt
- ''
My Double Life
''
G. K. Chesterton
- ''
All Things Considered
''
Jack London
- ''
War Of The Classes
''
BIRTHS
January 9
-
Simone De Beauvoir
, feminist philosopher
January 18
-
Jacob Bronowski
, scientist and poet
February 8
-
Emil Staiger
, scientist of literature (d.
1987
)
February 11
-
Sutan Takdir Alishahbana
, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
February 29
-
Dee Brown
, novelist and historian
March 6
- Dame
Felicitas Corrigan
, Benedictine author
March 22
-
Louis L'Amour
, author
May 17
-
Frederic Prokosch
, novelist and poet
May 25
-
Theodore Roethke
, American poet
May 28
-
Ian Fleming
, author
August 21
-
M. M. Kaye
, ''Far Pavilions'' author
September 4
-
Richard Wright
, author (d.
1960
)
September 17
-
John Creasey
, author
October 5
-
Joshua Logan
, stage and film writer and director
November 28
-
Claude Lévi-Strauss
DEATHS
January 25
-
Ouida
, writer
March 19
-
Eduard Zeller
, philosopher
April 20
-
Henry Chadwick
,
Baseball
writer and historian
July 3
-
Joel Chandler Harris
July 28
-
Otto Pfleiderer
, theologian
November 8
-
Victorien Sardou
, dramatist
AWARDS