 the year 1907 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works. ==events== *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. *april 17 - august strindberg's a dream play ("ett drÃ¶mspel", 1901) receives its first performance, at the swedish theatre (stockholm). *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 mystÃ¨re 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 bÃ¶hme's tagebuch einer verlorenen published, 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. *the diamond sÅ«tra, 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". *american humorist gelett burgess coins the term blurb for promotional text on a book-jacket. *hÃ©lÃ¨ne van zuylen leaves her partner renÃ©e vivien for another woman.valkyria. the renee vivien translation project. *elizabeth bowen moves with her mother from ireland to england. ==new books== *sholom aleichem - from home to america (×¤Ö¿×× ××¢×¨ ×××× ×§××× ×Ö·××¢×¨××§×¢, fun der heym keyn amerike), first part of motl, peysi the cantor's son: the writings of an orphan boy (××Ö¸×× ×¤Ö¼×××¡× ××¢× ××× ×¡; ××ª×Ö
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