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Everything about 1900 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books.
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New books
L. Frank Baum
Mary Elizabeth Braddon — The Infidel
Colette — Claudine à l'école
Joseph Conrad — Lord Jim
Marie Corelli — The Master Christian
Stephen Crane — Whilomville Stories
Gabriele D'Annunzio — The Flame of Life
Theodore Dreiser — Sister Carrie
Robert Grant — Unleavened Bread
Jerome K. Jerome — Three Men on the Bummel
Rudyard Kipling — Baa Baa, Black Sheep
Octave Mirbeau — The Diary of a Chambermaid
Emilio Salgari — The Tigers of Mompracem
Henryk Sienkiewicz — The Teutonic Knights
Booth Tarkington — Monsieur Beaucaire
Jules Verne
Mary Augusta Ward — Eleanor
H. G. Wells — Love and Mr Lewisham
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — The Heart's Highway
New drama
Anton Chekhov — Uncle Vanya
August Strindberg — The Dance of Death (Dödsdansen)
Poetry
Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch)
G. K. Chesterton — The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Ismail Hossain Shiraji — Anal Prabaha
Non-fiction
Arthur Conan Doyle — The Great Boer War
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (edited by James Wood)
Sigmund Freud — The Interpretation of Dreams
Births
January 9 — Emmanuel D'Astier, journalist
February 19 — Giorgos Seferis, poet
February 22 — Sean O'Faolain, short story writer
April 19 — Richard Hughes, novelist
April 24 — Elizabeth Goudge, novelist and children's author
May 1 — Ignazio Silone, novelist
June 29 — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, novelist
July 18 — Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer (d. 1999)
July 24 — Zelda Fitzgerald, wife and inspiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 7 — Taylor Caldwell, novelist
September 9 — James Hilton, novelist
October 16 — Edward Ardizzone, children's writer and illustrator
November 8 — Margaret Mitchell (d. 1949), Gone with the Wind author.
November 19 — Anna Seghers, novelist
December 16 — V. S. Pritchett, short story writer
Deaths
January 20 — Richard Doddridge Blackmore (b. 1825), English writer.
January 29 — John Ruskin, critic
January 31 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
February 23 — Ernest Dowson, poet
April 23 — Charles Isaac Elton, historian
July 3 — Fernand Brouez, editor of La Société Nouvelle
June 3 — Mary Kingsley, travel writer
June 4 — Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
June 5 — Stephen Crane (b. 1871), American writer.
August 16 — José Maria Eça de Queiroz, novelist
August 25 — Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844), German philosopher.
August 28 — Henry Sidgwick, philosopher
November 30 — Oscar Wilde, poet and dramatist
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