Editing 1919 in literature (section)

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]] (芥川 龍之介) – "[[Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale]]" (龍, ''Ryū'', published in ''Akutagawa Ryūnosuke zenshū'')
*[[Sherwood Anderson]] – ''[[Winesburg, Ohio (novel)|Winesburg, Ohio]]''
*[[Daisy Ashford]] – ''[[The Young Visiters]]'' (written in [[1890 in literature|1890]] aged nine)
*[[Pio Baroja]] – ''Caesar or Nothing''
*[[Max Beerbohm]] – ''[[Seven Men]]'' (short stories)
*[[André Breton]] and [[Philippe Soupault]] – ''[[Les Champs Magnétiques]]'' (first book to use techniques of [[surrealist automatism]])
*[[James Branch Cabell]] – ''[[Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice]]''
*[[Henry de Montherlant]] – ''Songe'' (Dream)
*[[Ronald Firbank]] – ''[[Valmouth]]''
*[[Gilbert Frankau]] – ''Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant: a romance of married life''<ref>{{Cite book |first=Q. D. |last=Leavis |author-link=Q. D. Leavis |title=Fiction and the Reading Public |edition=rev |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1965}}</ref>
*[[Philip Gibbs]] – ''[[The Street of Adventure (novel)|The Street of Adventure]]''
*[[André Gide]] – ''[[La Symphonie pastorale]]''
*[[A. P. Herbert]] – ''[[The Secret Battle]]''
*[[Joseph Hergesheimer]]
**''[[Linda Condon]]''
**''Java Head''
*[[Hermann Hesse]] (as Emil Sinclair) – ''[[Demian]]''
*[[E. M. Hull]] – ''[[The Sheik (novel)|The Sheik]]''
*[[Jerome K. Jerome]] – ''[[All Roads Lead to Calvary (novel)|All Roads Lead to Calvary]]''
*[[Franz Kafka]] – "[[In the Penal Colony]]" ("In der Strafkolonie")
*[[Halldór Laxness]] – "Barn náttúrunnar"
*[[Jack London]] – ''On the Makaloa Mat''
*[[Compton Mackenzie]] 
**''[[Poor Relations (novel)|Poor Relations]]''
**''[[Sylvia and Michael]]''
*[[Thomas Mann]] – {{Lang|de|Herr und Hund}} ([[A Man and His Dog (narrative)|''A Man and his Dog'']])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ermisch |first=Maren |title=Thomas Mann-Handbuch |publisher=Springer-Verlag |year=2015 |isbn=978-3-476-02456-5 |editor-last=Blödorn |editor-first=Andreas |location=Berlin |pages=130 |language=de |chapter=Herr und Hund (1919) |doi=10.1007/978-3-476-05341-1 |editor-last2=Marx |editor-first2=Friedhelm}}</ref>
*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] – ''[[The Moon and Sixpence]]''
*[[Christopher Morley]] – ''[[The Haunted Bookshop]]''
*[[Seumas O'Kelly]] (died 1918) – ''The Golden Barque and The Weaver's Grave'' (novellas)
*[[Baroness Orczy]]
**''His Majesty's Well-beloved''
**''[[The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel]]''
*[[Premchand]] – ''[[Bazaar-e-Husn|Seva Sadan]]''
*[[Marcel Proust]]
**''À l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs'' (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower or Within a Budding Grove), vol. 2 of ''[[In Search of Lost Time|À la recherche du temps perdu]]''
**''Pastiches et mélanges''
*[[Romain Rolland]]
**''Colas Breugnon''
**''Les Précurseurs'' (The Forerunners)
* [[Henry De Vere Stacpoole]] – ''[[The Beach of Dreams]]''
*[[Ivan Tavčar]] – ''Visoška kronika'' (The Visoko Chronicle, novella)
* [[Edgar Wallace]] – ''[[The Green Rust]]''
*[[Mary Augusta Ward]]
**''Fields of Victory''
**''Helena''
*[[Anna Elisabet Weirauch]] – ''The Scorpion (Der Skorpion)'' (vol. 1)
*[[George McLeod Winsor]] – ''Station X''
*[[P. G. Wodehouse]] – ''[[My Man Jeeves]]'' (collection)
*[[Virginia Woolf]] – ''[[Night and Day (Woolf novel)|Night and Day]]''
*[[Francis Brett Young]] – ''[[The Young Physician]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[L. Frank Baum]] – ''[[The Magic of Oz]]''
*[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] – ''[[Jungle Tales of Tarzan]]''
*[[Christine Chaundler]] – ''Ronald's Burglar''
*[[Grace May North]] – ''Adele Doring of the Sunnyside Club'' (first in the Adele Doring series)
*[[Else Ury]] – ''[[Nesthäkchen's Teenage Years]]''
*[[Hugh Walpole]] – ''Jeremy''

===Drama===
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*[[Ramón del Valle-Inclán]] – ''Divine Words (Divinas palabras)''
*[[Edward Salisbury Field]] – ''[[Wedding Bells (play)|Wedding Bells]]''
*[[John Galsworthy]] – ''[[The First and the Last (play)|The First and the Last]]''
*[[Susan Glaspell]] – ''Bernice''
*[[Harley Granville-Barker]] – ''The Secret Life''
*[[Ian Hay]] – ''[[Tilly of Bloomsbury (play)|Tilly of Bloomsbury]]''
*[[Robert Hichens (writer)|Robert Hichens]] – ''[[The Voice from the Minaret (play)|The Voice from the Minaret]]''
*[[Avery Hopwood]] – ''[[The Gold Diggers (1919 play)|The Gold Diggers]]''
*[[Karl Kraus (writer)|Karl Kraus]] – ''[[The Last Days of Mankind]] (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit)''
*[[Kwee Tek Hoay]] – ''[[Allah jang Palsoe]]'' (The False God)
*[[Else Lasker-Schüler]] – ''[[:de:Die Wupper|Die Wupper]]'' (The (river) Wupper; first performed, written 1908)
*[[H. F. Maltby]] – ''A Temporary Gentleman''
*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] – ''[[Caesar's Wife (play)|Caesar's Wife]]''
*[[A. A. Milne]]
**''The Camberley Triangle''
**''[[Mr. Pim Passes By]]''
*[[Louis N. Parker]] – ''[[Summertime (1919 play)|Summertime]]''
*[[Liviu Rebreanu]] – ''The Quadrille''
*[[Ernst Toller]] – ''Transformation''</onlyinclude>

===Poetry===
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*[[E. J. Brady]] – ''The House of the Winds''
*[[Uri Zvi Greenberg]] – ''In tsaytns roysh'' (In the tumult of the times, verse and prose)<ref>{{Cite web |first=Joshua |last=Fogel |title=Uri-Tsvi Grinberg |url=http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/10/uri-tsvi-grinberg-uri-zvi-greenberg.html |work=Yiddish Leksikon |date=2015-10-04 |language=English |accessdate=2019-12-16}}</ref>
*[[Siegfried Sassoon]] – ''The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon''
*[[August Stramm]] (killed in action 1915) – ''Tropfblut''
*[[Giuseppe Ungaretti]]
**''Allegria di naufragi'' (The Joy of Shipwrecks)
**''La guerra'' (The War)
*[[Louis Untermeyer]] (ed.) – ''Modern American Poetry''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Henri Bergson]] – ''L'Energie spirituelle: essais et conférences'' (Spiritual Energy: Essays and Lectures)
*[[Francis P. Duffy]] with [[Joyce Kilmer]] – ''Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth''
*[[Johan Huizinga]] – ''[[The Waning of the Middle Ages]] (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)''
*[[William Inge (priest, born 1860)|William Inge]] – ''Outspoken Essays'' (first series)
*[[John Maynard Keynes]] – ''[[The Economic Consequences of the Peace]]''
*[[Karl Kraus (writer)|Karl Kraus]] – ''Weltgericht'' (Last Judgment)
*[[Dorothy Lawrence]] – ''Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier'' (autobiography)
*[[H. L. Mencken]] – ''[[The American Language]]''
*[[Arthur Ransome]] – ''Six Weeks in Russia 1919''
*[[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]] – ''[[Ten Days That Shook the World]]''
*[[Carl Sandburg]] – ''The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919''
*Prof. [[William Strunk, Jr.]] – ''[[The Elements of Style]]''
*[[H. G. Wells]] – ''[[The Outline of History]]'' (publication of first installment, November 22)
*[[Arthur Graeme West]] (killed on active service 1917) – ''The Diary of a Dead Officer''
*[[Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley]] – ''Gardens, their Form and Design''