2015: LIST OF CENTENNIALS

This message will serve as our master list of centennials for 2015. The group page will have just a shortened version. If you want any author, work or event added to the list, just post a message below and I will add it.

Literary Centennials for 2015

   

Authors born in 1915

Saul Bellow | discussion
  - Dangling Man | discussion
  - The Adventures of Augie March | discussion
  - Seize the Day | discussion
  - The Dean's December | discussion
Richard Condon
Alun Lewis
Arthur Miller | discussion
Khushwant Singh
Jean Stafford | discussion
Margaret Walker
Denton Welch | discussion
Herman Wouk

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Authors born in 1815

Eugène Marin Labiche
Martins Pena
Anthony Trollope | discussion
  - Chronicles of Barsetshire
    1. The Warden | discussion
    2. Barchester Towers | discussion
    3. Doctor Thorne | discussion
    4. Framley Parsonage | discussion
    5. The Small House at Allington | discussion
    6. The Last Chronicle of Barset | discussion
  - Palliser Novels
    1. Can You Forgive Her? | discussion
    2. Phineas Finn | discussion
    3. The Eustace Diamonds | discussion
    4. Phineas Redux | discussion
    5. The Prime Minister | discussion
    6. The Duke's Children | discussion
  - The Way We Live Now | discussion
  - Doctor Wortle's School | discussion

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Authors born in 1715

Cao Xueqin (year of birth 1715 in some sources, 1724 in others)

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Notable literary works from 1915

Rashomon (short story) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan | discussion
Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (first serial publication) | discussion
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (first book publication) | discussion
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
Victory by Joseph Conrad | discussion
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider Haggard
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence | discussion
The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
The Star Rover by Jack London
The Bowman and Other Legends of the War by Arthur Machen
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Miller Richardson
The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Boon by H. G. Wells
Something Fresh by P. G. Wodehouse
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Poetry published in 1915

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Notable literary works from 1815

Emma by Jane Austen
The Devil's Elixirs by E. T. A. Hoffmann | discussion
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott

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Notable literary works from 1715

Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage

Literary works from 1915 that might be worth considering:
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Thanks for taking on yet another LT endeavour!

Next year is looking great.

I loved Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion and some of her stories, and have been meaning to read Trollope, so I may actually participate next year!

I will read various books by Denton Welch (1915–1948).

2015 is supposed to see tricentennial celebrations of the birth of Cao Xueqin, though there's some debate about his year of birth.

>6 defaults:

I will look into it and ask my grad students.

Wikipedia has it as follows:
Cao Xueqin (Chinese: 曹雪芹; pinyin: Cáo Xuěqín; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, (17151 or 17242 – 17631 or 17643), with both the date of birth and the year of death disputed. 1715 according to a Western source, and 1724 according to a Chinese source.

The Chinese mirror of the Wikipedia page on says:
曹雪芹（约1715年－约1763年）注 1; The date of birth is not disputed, but the note following the year of death suggests an alternative year of death.