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1 Events

• April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Terrytown, New York .

• June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from Missouri University .
• June - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the problem that would become known as Russell's Paradox.

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is published.

• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is published.

2 New Books

• Anna of the Five TownsAnna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and probably his best-known work. The plot centres on Anna, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire. Her activitie - Arnold BennettEnoch Arnold Bennett ( May 27, 1867- March 27, 1931) was a British novelist. Life He was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, one of six towns in the area known as the Potteries. Enoch Bennett, his father, had qualified as a solicitor in 1876 an
• The Battle-Ground - Ellen GlasgowEllen Anderson Gholson Glasgow ( April 22, 1873 November 21, 1945) was an American novelist from Richmond, Virginia. Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote 20 novels, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a fact Glasgow compensa
• BuddenbrooksBuddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901, when he was 26 years old. It was a literary success in Germany. It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lubeck over - Thomas MannFor the political scientist and pundit, see Thomas E. Thomas Mann ( June 6, 1875 August 12, 1955) was a German novelist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their i
• The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop - Hamlin Garland
• The Earthen Floor (poetry) - Edwin James Brady
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• The Hole in the Wall - Arthur Morrison
• The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor. At the time of researching the novel, Conan Doyle was a General Practitioner in Plym - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
• Lavinia - Rhoda Broughton
• L'immoraliste - André Gide
• Mrs Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
• The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci - Dmitri Merejkowski
• The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Supermaschio - Alfred Jarry
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
• Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy - Marie Corelli
• Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton
• The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
• The Virginian - Owen Wister
• The Wings of the Dove - Henry James