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Events relating to literature
Jack London's novel Iron Heel foresees a future repressive capitalist regime in the USA
Rat, Mole and Toad, in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, appeal to a wide readership
Anatole France casts a satirical eye on human society in his novel L'Île des pingouins ("Penguin Island")
Ezra Pound's first book of poems, A Lume Spento, is published in Italy
Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in a production by Stanislavsky
Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune
The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses
André Gide publishes La Porte étroite ('Strait is the Gate')
Jack London publishes his most autobiographical novel, Martin Eden
The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past
Constantine Cavafy prints a few more of his poems to add to the fourteen privately printed in 1904
J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death
John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories
H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence
Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British
E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family
D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock
Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I
G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories
Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature
Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapts the English medieval morality play Everyman ('Jedermann') for performance in Salzburg
Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford
Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali
