1905 in literature

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The year 1905 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

• The first of several chapters of I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である) by Natsume Sōseki are published serially in Hototogisu.
• Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.

[edit] New books

• Edwin Lester Linden Arnold - Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
• L. Frank Baum - Queen Zixi of Ix
• Rhoda Broughton - A Waif's Progress
• Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
• Mary Boykin Chesnut - A Diary from Dixie
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• Antonio Fogazzaro - The Saint
• E. M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
• W. H. Hudson - A Little Boy Lost
• Jack London - White Fang
• George Moore - The Lake
• Baroness Orczy
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The Case of Miss Elliot
  • By The Gods Beloved
• Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas
• Mark Twain - King Leopold's Soliloquy
• Jules Verne
  • Invasion of the Sea
  • The Lighthouse at the End of the World
• Mary Augusta Ward - The Marriage of William Ashe
• H.G. Wells - Kipps
• Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

[edit] New drama

• Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance
• Sacha Guitry - Nono
• J.M. Synge - The Well of the Saints

[edit] Non-fiction

• G. K. Chesterton
  • Heretics
  • Orthodoxy

[edit] Births

• January 31 - John O'Hara, writer (d. 1970)
• February 2 - Ayn Rand, author (d. 1982)
• February 7 - Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)
• February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer.
• May 16 - H. E. Bates, novelist
• May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
• June 20 - Lillian Hellman, dramatist
• July 25 - Elias Canetti, novelist
• September 5 - Arthur Koestler, novelist and social philosopher
• October 15 - C. P. Snow, novelist
• November 11 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of the Republic of Ireland, 1973-74
• November 30 - John Dickson Carr, crime writer
• December 4 - Munro Leaf, children's author
• December 21 - Anthony Powell, British novelist, (d. 2000)
• date unknown - Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher
• February 15 - General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• March 20 - Antonin Proust, journalist
• March 25 - Jules Verne, author
• May 23 - Mary Livermore, journalist
• August 22 - David Binning Monro, expert on Homer
• September 18 - George MacDonald, author
• October 28 - Alphonse Allais, humorist
• December 3 - John Bartlett, publisher
• December 9 - Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb classical commentator
• December 12 - William Sharp, poet, biographer and novelist
• December 29 - Creeve Roe, poet
• date unknown - R. C. Lehmann, editor of Punch magazine

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz