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Party like it's 1899

What was happening in the literary world in 1899? Which famous authors were just coming into the world?

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Wild lives
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld ; with photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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The Bronx Zoo was founded in 1899.

Three plays
Noel Coward ; introduction by Philip Hoare.
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Lieutenant Hornblower
by C. S. Forester.
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Labyrinths
Jorge Louis Borges ; edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby ; with an invitation by William Gibson.
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Mary Poppins
by P.L Travers ; illustrated by Mary Shepard.
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A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway.
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Complete poems of Hart Crane
edited by Marc Simon ; [introduction by Harold Bloom].
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Hart Crane (born in 1899, the same day as Ernest Hemingway) was the author of an epic poem centering on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The collected works of F.A. Hayek
edited by W.W. Bartley III.
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The father of libertarian economics, this author of "The Road to Serfdom" was born in 1899.

Pale fire
by Vladimir Nabokov.
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On the beach
Nevil Shute.
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Nevil Shute, born in 1899, wrote this chilling work of nuclear apocalypse.