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Henry Adams.

Conrad:
The Secret Agent.

William James:
Pragmatism.
1908
Forster:
A Room with a View.

Bennett:
The Old Wives’ Tale.
1909
Bely:
The Silver Dove.

Gide:
La Porte étroite
.
1910
Tsetsaeva:
Evening Album.

Rilke:
Sketches of Malte Laurids Brigge.

Forster:
Howards End.

Wells:
Mr Polly.

Döblin co-founds the Expressionist
Der Sturm.

Death of Tolstoy.
1911
Pound:
Canzoni.

Conrad:
Under Western Eyes.

Heinrich Mann’s manifesto:
Spirit and Deed.

The Poets’ Guild formed (founders of Russian Acmeism).
Wharton:
Ethan Frome.
1913
Proust:
A la Recherche du temps perdu
(to 1927).
Lawrence:
Sons and Lovers.

Trakl:
Poems.

Alain Fournier:
Le Grand Meaulnes.

Apollinaire:
Alcools.

Mandelstam:
Stone.

Gorky:
Childhood.

Cather:
O Pioneers!
1914
Joyce:
Dubliners.

Kaiser:
The Burghers of Calais.

Blok:
Carmen.

Akhmatova:
Rosary.
1915
Ford:
The Good Soldier.

Lawrence:
The Rainbow.

Woolf:
The Voyage Out.

Mayakovsky:
A Cloud in Trousers.
1916
Joyce:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Death of Henry James.
1917
Yeats:
The Wild Swans at Coole.

Eliot:
Prufrock and other Observations.

Pasternak:
Above the Barriers.
1918
Joyce:
Exiles.

Kraus:
The Last Days of Mankind
(to 1922).
Thomas Mann:
Considerations of an Unpolitical Man.

Spengler:
The Decline of the West
(to 1923).
Kaiser:
Gas
(to 1920).
Blok: ‘The Twelve’.
Birth of Solzhenitsyn.
1919
Sherwood Anderson:
Winesburg, Ohio.

Dos Passos:
One Man’s Initiation.

Cocteau:
Ode to Picasso.
1920
Lawrence:
Women in Love.

Wharton:
The Age of Innocence.

Sinclair Lewis:
Main Street.

Pound:
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.

Mayakovsky:
150,000,000.

Čapek:
RUR.
1921
Death of Blok and Gumilev. Thomas Mann:
Goethe and Tolstoy.

Hašek:
The Good Soldier Švejk.

Pirandello:
Six Characters in Search of an Author.
1922
Eliot:
The Waste Land.

Woolf:
Jacob’s Room.

Joyce’s
Ulysses
published in Paris.
Brecht:
Baal, Drums in the Night.

Pasternak:
My Sister Life.

Toller:
The Machine Wreckers.

Mandelstam:
Tristia.

Borges:
Fervor de Buenos Aires.

Čapek:
The Absolute at Large.

Death of Proust.
1923
Gorky:
My Universities.

Babel:
Red Cavalry
(to 1925).
Rilke:
Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus.

Cather:
A Lost Lady.
1924
Mann:
The Magic Mountain
published.
Pasternak:
The Childhood of Luvers, Themes and Variations.

Mayakovsky:
Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

Ford:
Some Do Not.

Forster:
A Passage to India.

O’Neill:
Desire under the Elms.

O’Casey:
Juno and the Paycock.
1925
Woolf:
Mrs Dalloway
and
The Common Reader.

Cather:
The Professor’s House.

Scott Fitzgerald:
The Great Gatsby.

O’Neill:
The Fountain.

Dreiser:
An American Tragedy.

Stein:
The Making of Americans.
1926
Gide:
Si le Grain ne meurt.

Ford:
A Man Could Stand Up.

Death of Rilke.
1927
Woolf:
To the Lighthouse.

Hesse:
Der Steppenwolf.

Brecht:
Man is Man.

Birth of Günter Grass.
DATE
HISTORICAL EVENTS
1883
Death of Wagner, Marx, Manet. Birth of Mussolini, Webern. First Russian Marxist revolutionary organization, the Liberation of Labour, founded in Geneva by Georgi Plekhanov. Opening of National Theatre in Prague. First skyscraper built (10 stories) in Chicago.
1884
Fall of Khartoum. Berlin conference on African affairs; Togo and the Cameroons become part of the German Empire. Death of Smetana.
1885
Bulgarian Crisis (to 1886); Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg becomes Prince of Bulgaria. Formation of the German East Africa protectorate. Karl Benz produces first car. Birth of Alban Berg.
1886
German deputies in the Bohemian Diet leave in protest at the Czechs’ not acknowledging restricted German-language areas in Bohemia (Germans return to Diet, 1890). Neutrality agreement between the Russian and German Empires (1887).
1888
Death of German Emperor, Wilhelm I. Convention of Constantinople: Suez Canal declared open to ships of all nations. Mahler’s first symphony.
1889
Second International founded in Paris, and the establishment of 1st May as a workers’ holiday (first celebrated in Austria-Hungary, 1890).