1919 - Literature

Literature

Nonfiction: Ten Days That Shook the World by Portland, Ore.-born war correspondent John Reed, 32, who witnessed the 1917 October revolution in Russia. Reed will organize and lead a U.S. Communist Labor Party, edit its journal Voice of Labor, be indicted for sedition, and escape to Russia; Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, who says the Germans will be unable to pay the reparations demanded at Versailles; Democratic Ideals and Reality by political geographer Halford J. Mackinder, now 58, who says that Britain and the United States must preserve a balance between the powers contending for domination of the Eurasian heartland (see politics, 1904). Mackinder will be knighted next year; Authority in the Modern State by English political scientist Harold J. (Joseph) Laski, 26, who has been lecturing at Harvard since 1916 and next year will join the faculty of the London School of Economics; The Principles of Natural Knowledge by Alfred North Whitehead; Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell; Epistle to the Romans (Der Römerbrief) by Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian Karl Barth, 33, who champions dialectic theology; The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIV and XV Centuries (Herfstij der Middeleeuwen . . .) by Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, 47, whose work will appear in English translation in 1924; The American Language by Baltimore Evening Sun staff writer and Smart Set magazine co-editor H. L. Mencken, whose scholarly analysis of the differences between English spoken in England and American English will be supplemented in 1945 and 1948; Prejudices (essays) by H. L. Mencken, who will publish five additional books under the same title in the next 8 years; The Seattle General Strike by local journalist Anna Louise Strong, 31, who covered the strike that began February 6.

Fiction: "The Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolinie") (story) by Franz Kafka; La Symphonie pastorale by André Gide; Within a Budding Grove (A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs) by Marcel Proust; Light (Clarté) by Henri Barbusse; The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham; A New Life (Shinsei) by Shimazaki Toson; Jurgen by Virginia author James Branch Cabell, 40, whose medieval romance is suppressed on charges of obscenity but will win wide acclaim through the 1920s; Winesburg, Ohio by Chicago writer Sherwood Anderson, 43, whose vignettes refute sentimental notions of untroubled small town life; Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer, who makes vivid the glory days of Salem, Massachusetts, in the flush of its China trade prosperity; The Pot Boils by English novelist (Margaret) Storm Jameson, 28; My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

Poetry: Poems by T. S. Eliot; War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon, who won the Military Cross in 1917, threw it into the sea, made a public announcement of his refusal to serve further, but returned to France last year and was wounded a second time; Naked Warriors by English poet-art critic Herbert Read, 26, is based on his war experiences; Last Poems by the late Edward Thomas; Marlborough by the late Charles Sorley; Transfiguration (Preobrazhenie) by Sergei A. Esenin; "Levy marsh" by Vladimir Mayakovski, who goes to work for the Russian Telegraph Agency creating posters and cartoons with appropriate rhymes and slogans; Boy (Ragazzo) by Piero Jahier; Altazor by Chilean poet (Fernández) Vicente (Garcia) Huidobro, 26; "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay, who has been inspired by race riots; Poems about God by Tennessee poet John Crowe Ransom, 31.

Nobel poet-novelist Karl A. Gjellerup dies at Klotzsche, near Dresden, October 11 at age 62; Ella Wheeler Wilcox near Branford, Conn., October 31 at age 68.

Juvenile: The Magic Pudding by Australian artist and author Norman (Alfred William) Lindsay, 39; The Young Visiters by English writer Daisy Ashford (Mrs. Margaret Devlin), 38, who wrote it when she was 9. James M. Barrie has written a preface; Lad, a Dog by New Jersey author Albert Payson Terhune, 47.

Author L. Frank Baum dies at Hollywood, California, May 6 at age 62.