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Events relating to literature
In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution
Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier
Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war
In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier
Quia Pauper Amavi contains the first three of Ezra Pound's eventually more than 100 cantos
H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany
Sherwood Anderson establishes a reputation with a collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio
Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself
After several less successful novels, the French writer Colette makes her reputation with Chéri
Edith Wharton publishes her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence
Sapper's patriotic hero makes his first appearance, taking on the villainous Carl Peterson in Bull-dog Drummond
The publication of Scott FitzGerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, brings him instant success
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life
Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV
The Czech playwright Karel Capek gives the world the term 'robot', in the title of his play Rossum's Universal Robots
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson
Marianne Moore calls her first published collection simply Poems
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere
The US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Story of Utopias, the first of his many influential works
Marina Tsvetaeva completes an anti-Soviet cycle of poems, The Encampment of the Swans
