British literature fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of "The Old Wives' Tale" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art was a monthly periodical published between 1844 and 1907. It reprinted the best of British magazines, as well as extracts from new books and, in its later years, original articles and fiction. The magazine was created in 1844 when New York publishers Leavitt, Trow and Company purchased the Eclectic Museum from Eliakim Littell and renamed it "The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art". Leavitt, Trow, & Co published the magazine in New York from 1844 to 1898. It was sold