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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1908. ==Events== *February 15 - The weekly boys' story paper ''The Magnet'' is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter. *March - Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he self-publishes his first collection of poems, ''A Lume Spento'' (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish ''A Quinzaine for this Yule''. *June 18 - Mark Twain purchases a house in Redding, Connecticut.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=History of Redding )〕 *July - Katherine Mansfield moves to London; she will never return to her native New Zealand. *September 30 - Maurice Maeterlinck's ''The Blue Bird'' (''L'Oiseau bleu'') is premièred at Konstantin Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre. *October 3 - The Avenida Theatre opens on Buenos Aires' Avenida de Mayo with a production of Lope de Vega's ''El castigo sin venganza'' ("Justice Without Revenge", 1631) directed by María Guerrero. *November 18 - Release in France of ''La Mort du duc de Guise'', the first film with a screenplay by an eminent man of letters, the playwright Henri Lavedan; it is also directed by two men of the theatre, Charles Le Bargy and André Calmettes, and features actors of the Comédie-Française. *December - Ford Madox Hueffer begins publication of the literary magazine ''The English Review'' in London. The first issue contains original work by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy and W. H. Hudson, and begins serialization of H. G. Wells's realist semiautobiographical satirical novel ''Tono-Bungay''. *Cuala Press is set up as an independent private press connected with the Irish Literary Revival and Arts and Crafts movement by Elizabeth "Lolly" Yeats with editorial support from her brother W. B. Yeats at Churchtown, Dublin. *Ethiopian linguist Afevork Ghevre Jesus's ልብ ፡ ወለድ ፡ ታሪክ ። (''Libb Wolled Tārīk'', "A Heart-Born Story"), the first novel in Amharic, is published in Rome. *Malay tale ''Hikayat Hang Tuah'' (c. 1700) is first published, edited by Sulaiman bin Muhammed Nur and William Shellabear.〔Hunt, Robert (2002). ''International Bulletin of Missionary Research'' 26(1): 31.〕 *Romanian writer Urmuz is known to be working on his manuscript stories, the ''Bizarre Pages'', only printed after 1922. 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「1908 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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