1905 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1904 in literature, other events of 1905, 1906 in literature, list of years in literature.

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.

New books

• A Diary from Dixie - Mary Boykin Chesnut
• Heretics - G. K. Chesterton
• The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
• The Invasion of the Sea - Jules Verne
• King Leopold's Soliloquy - Mark Twain
• Kipps - H.G. Wells
• The Lake - George Moore (novelist)
• The Lighthouse at the End of the World - Jules Verne
• A Little Boy Lost - W. H. Hudson
• The Marriage of William Ashe - Mary Augusta Ward
• Orthdoxy - G. K. Chesterton
• The Saint - Antonio Fogazzaro
• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
• A Waif's Progress - Rhoda Broughton
• Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
• White Fang - Jack London

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 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
• December 21 - Anthony Powell, British novelist, (d. 2000)

Deaths

• March 25 - Jules Verne, author
• September 18 - George MacDonald, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz