1917 – A Princess of Mars
1917. New allies enter the Great War and existing allies depart.
1916 – No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
1916. The madness of the Great War continues unabated.
1914 – The Golem
1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne is assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
1913 – A Prisoner in Fairyland
1913. One year before the Great War. The world is in a good place.
1911 – Ladies Whose Bright Eyes
1911. The world’s first scheduled airmail post is delivered in the UK, and the first public electric escalators are installed in a tube station in London.
1910 – The Lilac Fairy Book
1910. A year of portents and changes.
1907 – Ozma of Oz
1907. Oklahoma becomes a state, the United States limits immigration, and on December 31 at midnight, the first electric ball drops in Times Square.
1906 – The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1906. Sweden is in the middle of a national crisis.
1905 – The Gods of Pegana
1905. In Ireland, The Sinn Féin (“We Ourselves”) party is founded with the goal of uniting the various nationalist groups.
1903 – The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
1903. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, Orville Wright pilots the first modern airplane, and Henry Ford founds Ford Motors.