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