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The year 1905 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events
- L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales are published in The Delineator magazine from January to September.
- The first of several chapters of I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である) by Natsume Sōseki are published serially in Hototogisu.
- Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
New books
- Edwin Lester Linden Arnold - Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
- L. Frank Baum - Queen Zixi of Ix
- - The Fate of a Crown (as "Schuyler Staunton")
- Rhoda Broughton - A Waif's Progress
- Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
- Mary Boykin Chesnut - A Diary from Dixie
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Antonio Fogazzaro - The Saint
- E. M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
- W. H. Hudson - A Little Boy Lost
- Jack London - White Fang
- George Moore - The Lake
- Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas
- Mark Twain - King Leopold's Soliloquy
- Jules Verne - Invasion of the Sea
- Mary Augusta Ward - The Marriage of William Ashe
- H.G. Wells - Kipps
- Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
New drama
- Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance
- Sacha Guitry - Nono
- J.M. Synge - The Well of the Saints
Non-fiction
- G. K. Chesterton
- Heretics
- Orthodoxy
Births
- January 31 - John O'Hara, writer (d. 1970)
- February 2 - Ayn Rand, author (d. 1982)
- February 7 - Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)
- February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer.
- May 16 - H. E. Bates, novelist
- May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
- June 20 - Lillian Hellman, dramatist
- July 25 - Elias Canetti, novelist
- September 5 - Arthur Koestler, novelist and social philosopher
- October 15 - C. P. Snow, novelist
- November 11 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of the Republic of Ireland, 1973-74
- November 30 - John Dickson Carr, crime writer
- December 4 - Munro Leaf, children's author
- December 21 - Anthony Powell, British novelist, (d. 2000)
- December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic, (d. 1982)
- date unknown - Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet
Deaths
- January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher
- February 15 - General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- March 20 - Antonin Proust, journalist
- March 25 - Jules Verne, author
- May 23 - Mary Livermore, journalist
- August 22 - David Binning Monro, expert on Homer
- September 18 - George MacDonald, author
- October 28 - Alphonse Allais, humorist
- December 3 - John Bartlett, publisher
- December 9 - Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb classical commentator
- December 12 - William Sharp, poet, biographer and novelist
- December 20 - Henry Harland, novelist and editor
- December 29 - Creeve Roe, poet
- date unknown - R. C. Lehmann, editor of Punch magazine
Awards
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