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1908 in literature
See also:
1907 in literature
,
other events of 1908
,
1909 in literature
,
list of years in literature
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards
Events
June 18
-
Mark Twain
purchases a house in
Redding, Connecticut
.
The
Maurice Maeterlinck
play,
L'Oiseau bleu[?]
(
The Blue Bird
) debuts.
The Old Wives' Tale
by
Arnold Bennett
is published. In
2001
, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the
American Modern Library
.
New Books
All Things Considered[?]
-
G. K. Chesterton
Anne of Green Gables
-
Lucy Maude Montgomery
Arnoul the Englishman[?]
-
Francis Aveling[?]
A Battle in the Smoke[?]
-
Louisa Cooke Don Carlos[?]
Buried Alive[?]
-
Arnold Bennett
During Her Majesty's Pleasure[?]
-
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Holy Orders[?]
-
Marie Corelli
The House On the Borderland[?]
-
William Hope Hodgson
The Iron Heel[?]
-
Jack London
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary[?]
-
Algernon Blackwood
The Magician
-
W. Somerset Maugham
Mamma[?]
-
Rhoda Broughton
The Man Who Was Thursday[?]
-
G. K. Chesterton
My Double Life[?]
-
Sarah Bernhardt
The Old Wives' Tale
-
Arnold Bennett
Penguin Island
-
Anatole France
A Room with a View
-
E. M. Forster
The Seven Who Were Hanged[?]
-
Leonid Andreyev
The Shoulders of Atlas[?]
-
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman[?]
The Tale of Jemina Puddle-Duck[?]
-
Beatrix Potter
The Testing of Diana Mallory[?]
-
Mary Augusta Ward
Three lives[?]
-
Gertrude Stein
Tono-Bungay[?]
-
H.G. Wells
War of the Classes[?]
-
Jack London
The Wind in the Willows
-
Kenneth Grahame
Births
January 9
-
Simone de Beauvoir
, feminist philosopher
February 8
-
Emil Staiger[?]
, scientist of literature (+
1987
)
February 11
-
Sutan Takdir Alishahbana[?]
, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
March 22
-
Louis L'Amour[?]
, author
May 25
-
Theodore Roethke
, American poet
May 28
-
Ian Fleming
, author
September 4
-
Richard Wright
, author (+
1960
)
November 28
-
Claude Levi-Strauss
Deaths
January 25
-
Ouida
, writer
April 20
-
Henry Chadwick
,
baseball
writer and historian
July 3
,
1908
-
Joel Chandler Harris
Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature
:
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
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