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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1910.

Events[]

January 8 – Serialisation of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) concludes in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois.^[1]
April 20 – Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel Chaka; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published.^[2]
March 18 – The first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
March 30 – William Johnston and Paul West's novel The Innocent Murderers is published in New York City, as the first work of academic crime fiction.
August 11 – The Buenos Aires Convention is signed, providing for international recognition of copyright.
September – G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective Father Brown makes a first U.K. appearance in the short story "The Blue Cross" in the Story-Teller magazine (London), having previously appeared on June 23 in "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in The Saturday Evening Post (Philadelphia).
September 1 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree's elaborate revival of Shakespeare's Henry VIII opens in London. It will run for 254 consecutive performances.
October – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first novel Mafarka il futurista is cleared of obscenity charges.^[3]
Fall – Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist on The New York American.
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Boris Pasternak drops out of the Moscow Conservatory and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the University of Marburg.

New books[]

Fiction[]

C. R. Ashbee – The Building of Thelema
Arnold Bennett – Clayhanger (first volume in the eponymous trilogy – actually four books)
Oskar Braaten – Kring fabrikken
Rhoda Broughton – The Devil and the Deep Sea
John Buchan – Prester John
Ivan Bunin – The Village (Деревня, Derévnya, originally published as Novelet (Повесть))
Gilbert Cannan – Devious Ways
Dikran Chökürian – Hayreni dzayner (Հայրենի Ձայներ)
Colette – La Vagabonde
William T. Cox – Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Walter de la Mare – The Return
Grazia Deledda – Sino al confine ("Until the border")
Jeffery Farnol – The Broad Highway^[4]
Douglas Morey Ford – The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940
E. M. Forster – Howards End
Zane Grey – The Heritage of the Desert
Gerhart Hauptmann – Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint (The Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint)
Hermann Hesse – Gertrud
Gaston Leroux – Un Homme dans la nuit
Hermann Löns – Der Wehrwolf
Lu Shi'e – Xin Zhongguo (新中國, New China)
Iain MacCormaic – Dùn Aluinn (serialization)
Thomas Mofolo – Pitseng^[2]
Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石) – The Gate (Mon 門)
Martin Andersen Nexø – Pelle the Conqueror (final volume)
E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Golden Web
Baroness Orczy
- Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
- Petticoat Government
John Oxenham – A Maid of the Silver Sea
Louis Pergaud – De Goupil à Margot (short stories)
Aleksey Remizov – The Indefatigable Cymbal
Rainer Maria Rilke – The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge)
J.-H. Rosny aîné – La Mort de la Terre
Fráňa Šrámek – Stříbrný vítr
Katherine Thurston – Max
Edgar Wallace – The Nine Bears
Mary Augusta Ward – Canadian Born
H.G. Wells
- The History of Mr Polly
- The New Machiavelli (serialization)
Jerzy Żuławski – Zwycięzca ("The Conqueror"), second of the Trylogia Księżycowa (Lunar Trilogy)

Children and young people[]

Victor Appleton – Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle
L. Frank Baum
- The Emerald City of Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society (as Edith Van Dyne)
Thornton Burgess – Old Mother West Wind
Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
Grace James – Japanese Fairy Tales
Rudyard Kipling – Rewards and Fairies
Walter de la Mare – The Three Mulla Mulgars (also The Three Royal Monkeys)
John Masefield – A Book of Discoveries
Lucy Maud Montgomery – Kilmeny of the Orchard
E. Nesbit – The Magic City
Peter Newell – The Slant Book
Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Drama[]

Hall Caine
- The Bishop's Son (new version of Ben-my-Chree)
- The Eternal Question (new version of The Eternal City)
George Diamandy
- Bestia (The Beast)
- Tot înainte (Carry On)
Maxim Gorky - Reception
Terence MacSwiney – The Last Warriors of Coole
Maurice Maeterlinck – Mary Magdalene
Eduardo Marquina – En Flandes se ha puesto el sol (The Sun Has Set in Flanders)
John Masefield – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great
Louis N. Parker – Pomander Walk
Edmond Rostand – Chantecler
George Bernard Shaw – Misalliance
J. M. Synge – Deirdre of the Sorrows
Rabindranath Tagore – Raja (রাজা, The King of the Dark Chamber)

Poetry[]

Paul Claudel – Cinq Grandes Odes
Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali (Bengali language version)

Non-fiction[]

Jane Addams – Twenty Years at Hull House
Norman Angell – The Great Illusion (revision of Europe's Optical Illusion published 1909)
Hall Caine – King Edward: A Prince and a Great Man
G. K. Chesterton – What's Wrong With The World
Emily Davies – Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women
Emma Goldman – Anarchism and Other Essays
Robert Hichens – The Spell of Egypt
Dumitru C. Moruzi – Înstrăinații
Ezra Pound – The Spirit of Romance
Gerhard Ritter – Ein historisches Urbild zu Goethes Faust (Agrippa von Nettesheym)
Percy Sykes – The Glory of the Shia World^[5]
Henri Stahl – Bucureștii ce se duc
Wallace D. Wattles – The Science of Getting Rich
Andrew Dickson White – Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell – Principia Mathematica, vol. 1

Births[]

February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German author (died 1982)
February 10 – Joan G. Robinson, English children's writer and illustrator (died 1988)
February 11 – L. T. C. Rolt, English biographer and writer of ghost stories (died 1974)
March 22 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (died 1979)
May 8 – Andrew E. Svenson, American author and publisher (died 1975)
May 23 – Margaret Wise Brown, American children's writer (died 1952)
June 15 – Marie de Garis (Marie Le Messurier), Guernsey ethnographer and lexicographer (died 2010)
June 21 – Clive Sansom, English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright (died 1981)
June 23 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (died 1987)
July 14 – Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (died 2004)
July 27 – Julien Gracq, French novelist, critic and playwright (died 2007)
August 5 – Jacquetta Hawkes (née Hopkins), English writer and archeologist (died 1996)
September 8 – Julián Padrón, Venezuelan novelist, journalist and lawyer (died 1954)
September 11 – Manuel Mujica Láinez, Argentine novelist (died 1984)
September 18 – Bernard Kangro, Estonian journalist, author, and poet (died 1994)
October 15 – Haddis Alemayehu, Ethiopian politician and novelist (died 2003)
November 17 – Rachel de Queiroz, Brazilian author (died 2003)
December 19
- Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (died 1986)
- José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (died 1976)
December 24
- Jean-Paul Crespelle, French writer (died 1994)
- Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (died 1992)

Uncertain date

Betty Miller, Irish-born Jewish writer (died 1965)

Deaths[]

January 29 – Edouard Rod, French-Swiss novelist (born 1857)
April 3 – Catherine Helen Spence, Australian writer (born 1825)
April 9 – Vittoria Aganoor, Italian poet (born 1855)
April 21 – Mark Twain, American writer (born 1835)
May 7 – Emil Friedrich Kautzsch, German Bible scholar (born 1841)
May 10 – Anna Laetitia Waring, Welsh poet and hymnist (born 1823)
May 22 – Jules Renard, French novelist (born 1864)
July 2 – Frederick James Furnivall, English lexicographer (born 1825)
August 4 – Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, German New Testament commentator (born 1832)
August 26 – William James, American philosopher (born 1842)
October 17
- William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet (born 1869)
- Julia Ward Howe, American poet and abolitionist (born 1819)
November 6 – George Panu, Romanian memoirist, literary critic, journalist and politician (born 1848)
November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist (born 1831)
November 20 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (born 1828)

Awards[]

Nobel Prize for Literature: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
Newdigate prize: Charles Bewley^[6]

References[]

^ Gaston Leroux (8 March 2012). The Phantom of the Opera. OUP Oxford. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-19-162381-3.
^ ^a ^b Thomas Mofolo (21 May 2013). Chaka. Waveland Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4786-0972-8.
^ Blum, Cinzia Sartini (1996). The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520916272., p. 181.
^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
^ "A History of Persia". World Digital Library. 1921. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
^ Charles Bewley (3 September 2015). Atlantis; The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1910. Bibliolife DBA of Bibilio Bazaar II LLC. ISBN 978-1-341-46121-7.

[1] Gaston Leroux (8 March 2012). The Phantom of the Opera. OUP Oxford. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-19-162381-3.

[Mofolo2013-2] Thomas Mofolo (21 May 2013). Chaka. Waveland Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4786-0972-8.

[3] Blum, Cinzia Sartini (1996). The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520916272., p. 181.

[4] Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

[WDL-5] "A History of Persia". World Digital Library. 1921. Retrieved 2013-10-01.

[6] Charles Bewley (3 September 2015). Atlantis; The Newdigate Prize Poem, 1910. Bibliolife DBA of Bibilio Bazaar II LLC. ISBN 978-1-341-46121-7.

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