1910 in literature

Events

• January 8 – Serialisation of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera concludes in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois.
• April 20 – Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
• March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel Chaka; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published.
• March 18 – The first movie version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
• March 30 – William Johnston and Paul West's novel The Innocent Murderers is published in New York City, as the first work of academic crime fiction.
• August 11 – The Buenos Aires Convention is signed, providing for international recognition of copyright.
• September – G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective Father Brown makes a first U.K. appearance in the short story "The Blue Cross" in the Story-Teller magazine, having previously appeared on June 23 in "Valentin Follows a Curious Trail" in The Saturday Evening Post.
• September 1 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree's elaborate revival of Shakespeare's Henry VIII opens in London. It will run for 254 consecutive performances.
• October – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's first novel Mafarka il futurista is cleared of obscenity charges.
• Fall – Damon Runyon begins working as a journalist on The New York American.
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• Boris Pasternak drops out of the Moscow Conservatory and begins to study law, moving on to study philosophy at the University of Marburg.

  New books

Fiction

• C. R. Ashbee – The Building of Thelema
• Arnold Bennett – Clayhanger
• Oskar Braaten – Kring fabrikken
• Rhoda Broughton – The Devil and the Deep Sea
• John Buchan – Prester John
• Ivan Bunin – The Village
• Gilbert Cannan – Devious Ways
• Dikran Chökürian – Hayreni dzayner
• Colette – La Vagabonde
• William T. Cox – Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
• Walter de la Mare – The Return
• Grazia Deledda – Sino al confine
• Jeffery Farnol – The Broad Highway
• Douglas Morey Ford – The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940
• E. M. Forster – Howards End
• Zane Grey – The Heritage of the Desert
• Gerhart Hauptmann – :de:Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint|Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint
• Hermann Hesse – Gertrud
• Gaston Leroux – Un Homme dans la nuit
• Hermann Löns – Der Wehrwolf
• Lu Shi'e – Xin Zhongguo
• Iain MacCormaic – Dùn Aluinn
• Thomas Mofolo – Pitseng
• Natsume Sōseki – The Gate
• Martin Andersen Nexø – Pelle the Conqueror
• Baroness Orczy
• *Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
• *Petticoat Government
• John Oxenham – A Maid of the Silver Sea
• Louis Pergaud – De Goupil à Margot
• Aleksey Remizov – The Indefatigable Cymbal
• Rainer Maria Rilke – The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
• J.-H. Rosny aîné – La Mort de la Terre
• Fráňa Šrámek – Stříbrný vítr
• Katherine Thurston – Max
• Edgar Wallace – The Nine Bears
• Mary Augusta Ward – Canadian Born
• H.G. Wells
• *The History of Mr Polly
• *The New Machiavelli
• Jerzy Żuławski – Zwycięzca, second of the Trylogia Księżycowa

  Children and young people

• Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle
• L. Frank Baum
• *The Emerald City of Oz
• *Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
• Thornton Burgess – Old Mother West Wind
• Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Secret Garden
• Grace James – Japanese Fairy Tales
• Rudyard Kipling – Rewards and Fairies
• Walter de la Mare – The Three Mulla Mulgars
• John Masefield – A Book of Discoveries
• Lucy Maud Montgomery – Kilmeny of the Orchard
• E. Nesbit – The Magic City
• Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

  Drama