1888 in literature
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The year 1888 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Grant Allen - The Devil's Die
- Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward
- Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Fatal Three
- James De Mille - A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
- H. Rider Haggard - Maiwa's Revenge
- Henry James - The Aspern Papers
- Rudyard Kipling - The Man Who Would Be King
- George MacDonald - The Elect Lady
- Herman Melville - John Marr and Other Sailors
- Octave Mirbeau, L'Abbé Jules
- George A. Moore
- Shardha Ram Phillauri - Bhagyawati
- Raul Pompéia - O Ateneu
- José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - Os Maias
- Henryk Sienkiewicz - Pan Wołodyjowski
- Robert Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow
- Jules Verne - Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom)
- Lew Wallace - The Boyhood of Christ
- Mary Augusta Ward - Robert Elsmere
[edit] New drama
- Sarah Bernhardt - L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose
- Henrik Ibsen - The Lady from the Sea
- August Strindberg - Miss Julie
[edit] Non-fiction
- Joseph Bertrand - Calcul des probabilités
- John D. Billings - Hard Tack and Coffee
- Helena Blavatsky - The Secret Doctrine
[edit] Births
- January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer (died 1960)
- April 26 - Anita Loos, novelist, screenwriter (d. 1981)
- July 23 - Raymond Chandler, novelist, screenwriter (d. 1959)
- September 26 - T. S. Eliot, poet, playwright (d. 1965)
- October 14 - Katherine Mansfield short story writer (d. 1923)
- October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright (d. 1953)
- Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)
[edit] Deaths
- March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (born 1832)
- April 15 - Matthew Arnold, poet (b. 1822)
- May 12 - Edward Lear, poet (b. 1812)
- August 9 - Charles Cros, French poet (b. 1842)
- August 20 - Henry Richard, political writer (b. 1812)
- September 24 - Karl von Prantl, philosopher (b. 1820)
- December 8 - Frederick Apthorp Paley, scholar (b. 1815)
- December 23 - Laurence Oliphant, travel writer (b. 1829)
