1908 in literature

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