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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

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