1917 in literature - 1917 in literature See also: 1916 in literature, other events of 1917, 1918 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events December 25 - Why Marry, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City. New Books Canada at Flanders - Max Aitken A Daughter of the Morning - Zona Gale Ethiopia, The Land of Promise - Clayton Adams His Family - Ernest Poole The Homesteader - Oscar Micheaux The Job - Sinclair Lewis Knights of Araby - Marmaduke Pickthall The Leopard's Claw - George Washington Ellis The Man With Two Left Feet - P. G. Wodehouse Missing - Mary Augusta Ward Of.
1848 in literature - 1848 in literature See also: 1847 in literature, other events of 1848, 1849 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events New Books The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri Murger Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens The Emigrants of Ahadarra - William Carleton Francois the Waif - George Sand Harold - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - Charles Dickens Life in the Wilds of North America - RM Ballantyne The Little Savage - Frederick Marryat The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas, père Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell Pendennis - William Makepeace Thackeray The Queen's Necklace - Alexandre Dumas, père The Tenant of.
1917 - 1917 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s Years: 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 - 1917 - 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Heads of state in 1917 Events January 2 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. January 17 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands January 22 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million January 28 -.
1916 in literature - 1916 in literature See also: 1915 in literature, other events of 1916, 1917 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events The Journal of Negro History is founded by Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of "Black History" and "Negro History Week." A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is published. In 2001, the book would be one of three books by Joyce to be named as part of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books The Awakening of Hezekiah Jones - John Edward Bruce The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story - George A. Moore.
1918 in literature - 1918 in literature See also: 1917 in literature, other events of 1918, 1919 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events First Pulitzer Prizes awarded Author Hall Caine made a Knight of the British Empire. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 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 Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War - Guillaume Apollinaire Colas Breugnon - Romain Rolland Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey Hope's Highway - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming I Have Killed - Blaise Cendrars.
1932 in literature - 1932 in literature See also: 1931 in literature, other events of 1932, 1933 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published. In 2001, the book would be one of two books by Huxley to be on the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books 1919 - John Dos Passos Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh Brave New World - Aldous Huxley A Broken Journey - Morley Callaghan Burning Bush - Sigrid Undset Christmas Pudding - Nancy Mitford The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem -.
1953 in literature - 1953 in literature See also: 1952 in literature, other events of 1953, 1954 in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards Events January 22 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway. February 19 - Censorship: The State of Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. After five years as an English Teacher, Frederick Buechner moves to New York to become a full time writer. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 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.
Russian literature - Russian literature Old Russian literature consists of several sparse masterpieces written in Old Russian Language (not to mix with Old Church Slavonic). Anonymous "The Word of Igor's Campaign" (Слово о Полку Игореве, Slovo o Polku Igoreve) is one of these. Westernization of Russia (particularly associated with the name of Tsar Peter the Great coincided with reform of the Russian alphabet and increased tolerance of the idea of employing the popular language for general literary purposes. Writers like Dmitri Kantemir and Mikhail Lomonosov in the earlier 18th century paved the way for poets like Derzhavin, playwrights like Sumarokov and prose writers like Karamzin and Radishchev. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Zhukovsky and Pushkin came to the fore, followed by Mikhail Lermontov. Nineteenth-century.
Philatelic literature - Philatelic literature Philatelic literature is written material relating to philately, primarily information about postage stamps and postal history. Philatelic literature is generally divided into the following categories: Catalogs Periodicals Journals Newspapers Society newsletters Other - including stamp dealer price lists which include some stamp collecting articles and/or opinion essays Auction catalogs Books Background material - Usually not focused on postal or stamp collecting but containing reference material useful to stamp collectors. For example, currency exchange rates beteen European countries for a given year. Stamp dealer price lists Bibliography of philatelic literature - Including everything from a topic by topic list of just book or article titles to a short abstract of each and every item listed in the bibliography The nature of the postal system, as an.
Nobel Prize in Literature - Nobel Prize in Literature List of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1901 : Sully Prudhomme 1902 : Theodor Mommsen 1903 : Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson 1904 : Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre 1905 : Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906 : Giosuè Carducci 1907 : Rudyard Kipling 1908 : Rudolf Christoph Eucken 1909 : Selma Lagerlöf 1910 : Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse 1911 : Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck 1912 : Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann 1913 : Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1915 : Romain Rolland 1916 : Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam 1917 : Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1919 : Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler 1920 : Knut Hamsun 1921 : Anatole France 1922 : Jacinto Benavente 1923 : William Butler Yeats 1924 : Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont 1925.
List of years in literature - List of years in literature This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - Pre 1710s 2000s 2003 in literature - 2002 in literature - Atonement - Ian McEwan 2001 in literature - Life of Pi - Yann Martel 2000 in literature - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published, and creator Charles Schulz dies soon.
Karl Adolph Gjellerup - together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. In Denmark Gjellerup's award was received with little enthusiasm. He had been regarded long as a German writer. Because Sweden was neutral during World War I, the divided prize did not arouse political speculations about partial decision, but showed on the other hand allegiance between the Nordic neighbors. External Links http://www.nobel-winners.com/Literature/karl_gjellerup.html.
Knut Hamsun - who explored the madness of the contemporary human condition. The book has since become one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. Other important works by Hamsun include Pan (1894) and The Growth of the Soil (1917), for which he received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920. Despite his immense popularity in Norway and around the world, Hamsun's reputation waned considerably because of his support of Vidkun Quisling's Nazi regime during World War II. Following a meeting with Joseph Goebbels in 1943, he sent Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a gift. On the other hand, he also met with Adolf Hitler and tried to have him remove Josef Terboven from the position of Reichskommissar of Norway. After the war, he was confined for several months in a.
Konstantin Stanislavski - an early interest in acting and took the stage-name Stanislavski to preserve the reputation of his family. In 1888 he established the Society of Art and Literature at the Maly Theatre, where he gained experience in aesthetics and stagecraft. In 1898, he assumes the role of principal director of the Moscow Open Theatre, later known as the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT). From there, based on the realist tradition of Aleksandr Pushkin, he developed his ideas of what he called the Stanislavski Method and which would later be called method acting - actors would research the situation created by the script according to their character's motivations and their own experiences. Ideally, the actor would make his motivations identical to those of the character in the script. He could then replay these emotions.
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia - 1893 - July 17, 1975) was a classic of Georgian literature of the 20th century and famous public benefactor, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, PhD of the Berlin University, Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize of Georgia. Life and works Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was born in 1893, in Abasha (Samegrelo region of Western Georgia). His father was Prince Svimon Gamsakhurdia. In 1911 he graduated from the Georgian Gimnasium of Kutaisi (Western Georgia) and in 1918 from the Berlin University (Germany). In 1918 he was member of the Board of the Constituent Society of the Tbilisi State University and in 1920-1924 Associate Professor of German literature of this University. In 1918-1919 Gamsakhurdia was the 1st Secretary of the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Germany, in 1920 -.
January 29 - Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire. 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit. 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. Births 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, naturalist and theosophist (+ 1772) 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British Military leader (+ 1797) 1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809) 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (+ 1808) 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (+ 1901 1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and short.
January 17 - Stronghold in the US Modoc War 1893 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. 1899 - United States takes possession of Wake Island. 1912 - Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. 1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed. 1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. 1945 - Soviets occupy Warsaw. 1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation. 1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody. 1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session. 1949 - The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs. 1950 - The Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from a armored car in Boston, Massachusetts..
Jack London - 3 Early literary career (1898-1900) 4 Accusations of plagiarism 5 Beauty Ranch (1910-1917) 6 Political views 7 Death 8 Works 8.1 Short Stories 8.2 Nonfiction and Autobiographical Memoirs 9 Selected bibliography 9.3 Biographies and books about Jack London 9.4 Novels 9.5 Stories 9.6 Plays 10 External Links Personal background Jack London was born in San Francisco, California. Jack London's biological father is believed by Clarice Stasz and other biographers to have been the astrologer William Chaney. Chaney was in fact a distinguished and respectable figure; according to Stasz, "From the viewpoint of serious astrologers today, Chaney is a major figure who shifted the practice from quackery to a more rigorous method." Jack London did not learn of Chaney's putative paternity until adulthood. In 1897 he wrote to Chaney and received a.
Jeeves and Wooster - the foppish Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves. They are one of the best-known comic duos in modern English literature. Bertie gets entangled in increasingly unlikely and seemingly inextricable scenarios, until Jeeves steps in to save the day. The Jeeves and Wooster canon was written over a huge period of time, between the first short story (Extricating Young Gussie) in 1917 and Wodehouse's final novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. It consists of a dozen novels or collections of short stories, all but one story told in first-person from Bertie's point of view. All exist in a timeless world based on an idealized version of England before World War II, and take place in three main locations: London, where Bertie has a flat and is a member of the raucous.
Josip Plemelj - Christian Klein and David Hilbert. In April 1902 he became a private senior lecturer at the University of Vienna. In 1906 he was appointed assistant at the Technical University of Vienna. In 1907 he became associate professor and in 1908 full professor of mathematics at the University of Chernivtsi (Russian Черновцы), Ukraine. From 1912 to 1913 he was dean of this faculty. In 1917 his political views led him to be forcibly ejected by the Government and he fled to Bohemia (Moravska). After the First World War he became a member of the University Commission under the Slovene Provincial Government and helped establish the first Slovene university at Ljubljana, and was elected its first Chancellor. In the same year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Arts. After.
