Literature year 1905
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
prose
- The novel INRI by Peter Rosegger appears.
drama
- March 6th : The verse drama Catherina - Countess von Armagnac , Karl Gustav Vollmoeller's first play, has its world premiere at the Carltheater in Vienna .
Scientific works
- Spring: The second part of the essay The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber appears in the Archive for Social Science and Social Policy .
- Sigmund Freud publishes the studies The Joke and its Relationship to the Unconscious and Three Essays on Sexual Theory .
Literary prizes
- Henryk Sienkiewicz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature “because of his great achievements as an epic writer” .
- Prix Goncourt : Les Civilisés by Claude Farrère
More new books
- A Diary from Dixie : Mary Boykin Chesnut
- Heretics : GK Chesterton
- The House of Mirth : Edith Wharton
- The break in of the sea : Jules Verne
- King Leopold's Soliloquy : Mark Twain
- Kipps : HG Wells
- The Lake : George A. Moore
- A Little Boy Lost : WH Hudson
- The Marriage of William Ashe : Mary Augusta Ward
- Orthodoxy : GK Chesterton
- The Saint : Antonio Fogazzaro
- The Scarlet Pimpernel : Baroness Orczy
- A Waif's Progress : Rhoda Broughton
- Where Angels Fear to Tread : EM Forster
- White Fang : Jack London
- Professor Unrat : Heinrich Mann
Edith Wharton's House of Mirth is published. In 2001 the book was named one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the American Modern Library.
Born
- January 2 : Pelle Igel , German writer († 1981 )
- January 31 : John O'Hara , American writer († 1970 )
- February 2 : Ayn Rand , American writer († 1982 )
- February 7 : Paul Nizan , French writer († 1940 )
- May 16 : Lothar Irle , German writer († 1974 )
- May 20 : Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet († 1962 )
- June 21 : Jean-Paul Sartre , French writer († 1980 )
- July 25 : Elias Canetti , writer and Nobel Prize winner († 1994 )
- August 11 : Erwin Chargaff , American biochemist and writer († 2002 )
- September 5 : Arthur Koestler , Austro-Hungarian writer († 1983 )
- December 12 : Manès Sperber , Austro-French writer († 1984 )
- December 21 : Anthony Powell , British novelist and literary critic († 2000 )
- 1904/1905: Harry Domela , Baltic German impostor, author and fighter against Spain († after 1977)
Died
- February 11 : Otto Erich Hartleben , German writer and playwright (* 1864)
- March 24th : Jules Verne , French writer (* 1828)
- September 18 : George MacDonald , Scottish writer and poet (* 1824)
- November 4 : Clara Müller-Jahnke , German poet, journalist and women's rights activist (* 1860 )
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