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Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point. After 1960, the somewhat malleable term "contemporary literature" widely appears. Although these terms (modern, contemporary and postmodern) are generally applicable to and stem from Western literary history, scholars often use them in reference to Asian, Latin American and African literatures. Non-western writers, in particular in Postcolonial literature, have been at the forefront of literary evolution during the twentieth century. Technological advances facilitated lower production cost for books, coupled with rising populations and literacy rates, which resulted in a significant rise in production of popular literature and trivial literature, comparable to the similar developments in music. The division of "popular literature" and "high literature" in the 20th century is overlapped by genres such as detectives or science fiction, despite being largely ignored by mainstream literary criticism for the most of the century. These genres developed their own establishments and critical awards; these include the Nebula Award (since 1965), the British Fantasy Award (since 1971) or the Mythopoeic Awards (since 1971). Towards the end of the 20th century, electronic literature grew in importance in light of the development of hypertext and later the World Wide Web. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded annually throughout the century (with the exception of 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940–1943), the first laureate (1901) being Sully Prudhomme. The New York Times Best Seller list has been published since 1942. The best-selling literary works of the 20th century are estimated to be The Lord of the Rings (1954/55, 150 million copies), Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince, 1943, 140 million copies), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997, 120 million copies) and And Then There Were None (1939, 115 million copies). The Lord of the Rings was also voted "book of the century" in various surveys. Perry Rhodan (1961 to present) proclaimed as the best-selling book series, with an estimated total of 1 billion copies sold. 1901–1918 The Fin de siècle movement of the Belle Époque persisted into the 20th century, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of World War I (an effect depicted e.g. in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, published 1924). The Dada movement of 1916–1920 was at least in part a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war; the movement heralded the Surrealism movement of the 1920s. 1900 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Poland, England) The Knights of the Cross by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland) Genre fiction The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (US) 1901 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Germany) The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (England) Kim by Rudyard Kipling (India, England) Genre fiction The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel (Montserrat, England) The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells (England) 1902 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Immoralist by André Gide (France) The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (US, England) The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett (England) Genre fiction The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Scotland) Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Plays Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (Ireland) The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky 1903 Romance by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford The Ambassadors by Henry James The Pit by Frank Norris (US) In Wonderland by Knut Hamsun (Norway) Genre fiction The Call of the Wild by Jack London (US) The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (England, Ireland) 1904 The Golden Bowl by Henry James Nostromo by Joseph Conrad The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton (England) The Peasants by Władysław Reymont (Poland) Genre fiction The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells The Sea-Wolf by Jack London Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson (Argentina, England) Plays John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 1905 Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo (England, Italy) Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (England) Kipps by H. G. Wells Songs of Life and Hope by Rubén Darío (Nicaragua) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (US) The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton 1906 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (US) The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil (Austria) Mother by Maxim Gorky Genre fiction Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Scotland) Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany (Ireland, England) White Fang by Jack London Plays The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge (Ireland) The Morality of Mrs. Dulska by Gabriela Zapolska (Poland) 1907 Bardidi by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (India) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The Longest Journey by E. M. Forster Genre fiction The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood (England) – contains The Willows, one of the first 'cosmic horror' stories The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen (England) Plays The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge Poetry Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (France, England) 1908 The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A Room with a View by E. M. Forster The Iron Heel by Jack London Hell by Henri Barbusse (France, Russia) The Magician by Somerset Maugham (England, France) – based on the author's meeting with Aleister Crowley Genre fiction The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (England) Poetry Personae by Ezra Pound (US, England, Italy) – one of the first examples of 'modernist' poetry 1909 Martin Eden by Jack London Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W C Newte Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (US, France) Poetry Exultations by Ezra Pound Poems by William Carlos Williams (US) Plays The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium) 1910 Howards End by E. M. Forster The Card by Arnold Bennett The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells 1911 Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (England) In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield (England) – short stories Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence (England) Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser (US) In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland) Genre fiction Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (Scotland) 1912 The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Germany) Genre fiction Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (US) The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (US) Plays Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 1913 Petersburg by Andrei Bely (Russia) Swann's Way.... Discover the Kenneth Grahame Lord Dunsany Edgar Rice popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Kenneth Grahame Lord Dunsany Edgar Rice books.