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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1907. ==Events== *January 3 - National Theatre opens in Sofia, Bulgaria. *January 26 - Large sections of the audience boo the opening performance of J. M. Synge's ''The Playboy of the Western World'' at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Disturbances continue for a week. *February 4 - In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of ''The Playboy of the Western World''. *March - The ''Diamond Sūtra'', a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book". *April 17 - August Strindberg's ''A Dream Play'' ("''Ett drömspel''", 1901) receives its first performance, at the Swedish Theatre (Stockholm) with his ex-wife Harriet Bosse in the leading rôle. *April 23 - Jack and Charmian London sail out of San Francisco Bay on a yacht to begin the voyage described in ''The Cruise of the Snark'' (1911). *May–September - Kenneth Grahame writes the letters to his son that are the basis for ''The Wind in the Willows'' (1908). *May - British publishers Thomas Nelson and William Collins, Sons (as "Books for the million") launch cheap hardback in-copyright imprints. *May 15 - American humorist Gelett Burgess coins the term blurb for promotional text on a book-jacket. *June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from the University of Oxford in England. *September 7 - Gaston Leroux's pioneering locked room mystery ''The Mystery of the Yellow Room'' (''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'') begins serialization. *Autumn - James Joyce tutors Ettore Schmitz in English at Trieste. Schmitz later becomes well-known under the name Italo Svevo. *Deluxe edition of Margarete Böhme's ''Tagebuch einer Verlorenen'' published in Berlin, marking 100,000 copies in print. *Thomas Mofolo's ''Moeti oa bochabela'' ("The Traveler of the East"), the first work of literature in the Sotho language, is published. *Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner Renée Vivien for another woman.〔(Valkyria. The Renee Vivien Translation Project. )〕 *Elizabeth Bowen moves with her mother from Ireland to England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1907 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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