- 1910 in literature
The year 1910 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
*April -
Halley's comet reappears (after 76 years), andMark Twain dies onApril 21 ,1910 , the day following the comet'sperihelion . In his biography, Twain had written, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
*Boris Pasternak leaves theMoscow Conservatory .
*Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist inNew York City .New books
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Jane Addams — "Twenty Years at Hull House "
*L. Frank Baum — "The Emerald City of Oz "
*Arnold Bennett — "Clayhanger" (first volume of trilogy)
*Oskar Braaten — "Kring fabrikken"
*Rhoda Broughton — "The Devil and the Deep Sea "
*John Buchan — "Prester John"
*Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin — "The Village"
*Colette — "La Vagabonde "
*Walter de la Mare — "The Return"
*E. M. Forster — "Howards End "
*Zane Grey — "Heritage of the Desert "
*Hermann Hesse — "Gertrud"
*Martin Andersen Nexø — "Pelle the Conqueror " (final volume)
*Baroness Orczy
**"Lady Molly of Scotland Yard "
**"Petticoat Government "
*Aleksey Remizov — "The Indefatigable Cymbal"
*Rainer Maria Rilke —"The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge "
*Mary Augusta Ward — "Canadian Born "
*H.G. Wells — "The History of Mr. Polly "
*Lucy Maud Montgomery — "Kilmeny of the Orchard "New drama
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Maurice Maeterlinck — "Mary Magdalene"
*Edmond Rostand — "Chantecler "
*George Bernard Shaw — "Misalliance "
*J.M. Synge — "Deirdre of the Sorrows "Poetry
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Paul Claudel — "Cinq Grandes Odes "Non-fiction
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Norman Angell — "The Great Illusion " (revision of 'Europe's Optical Illusion' pub. 1909)
*Hall Caine — ""
*G. K. Chesterton — "What's Wrong With The World "
*Wallace D. Wattles — "The Science of Getting Rich "
*Andrew Dickson White — "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason "Births
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February 6 -Irmgard Keun , author (d.1982 )
*July 14 -Vincent Brome , biographer and novelist (d.2004 )
*December 19 -Jean Genet , French novelist, playwright and poet
*December 24 -Jean-Paul Crespelle , French writer
*December 24 - Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., American writer offantasy andscience fiction Deaths
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January 29 -Edouard Rod , novelist
*April 21 -Mark Twain , writer
*May 22 -Jules Renard , novelist
*July 2 -Frederick James Furnivall , philologist and editor
*August 26 -William James , philosopher
*October 17 -Julia Ward Howe , poet
*November 15 -Wilhelm Raabe , novelist
*November 20 -Leo Tolstoy , novelist
*"date unknown"
**Vittoria Aganoor , poet
**Heinrich Julius Holtzmann , New Testament commentator
**Emil Friedrich Kautzsch , Bible critic
**Sylvia Llewelyn Davies , daughter ofGeorge du Maurier and mother of the "Lost Boys"Awards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
*Newdigate prize :Charles Bewley
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