1896 in literature

1896 in literature

The year 1896 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

* Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's "The Winning of the West".
* "The New York Times" publishes its first book review section, which evolves to become "The New York Times Book Review".

New books

*Richard Doddridge Blackmore - "Tales from the Telling House"
*René Boylesve - "Le Médecin des dames de néans"
*Joseph Conrad - "An Outcast of the Islands"
*Hall Caine - "Jan the Icelander or Home, Sweet Home, A Lecture Story"
*Marie Corelli
**"The Mighty Atom"
**"The Murder of Delicia"
**"Ziska"
*Edouard Estaunie - "L' empreinte"
*Harold Frederic - "The Damnation of Theron Ware"
*Antonio Fogazzaro - "The Patriot"
*Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - "Madelon"
*Jules Girardin - "Les aventures de M. Colin-Tampon"
*Sarah Orne Jewett - "The Country of the Pointed Firs"
*William Morris - "The Well at the World's End"
*Robert Louis Stevenson - "Weir of Hermiston"
*Mark Twain - "Tom Sawyer, Detective"
*Paul Valéry - "La Soirée avec M. Teste"
*Jules Verne
**"Facing the Flag"
**"Clovis Dardentor"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Sir George Tressady"
*H. G. Wells
**"The Time Machine"
**"The Island of Dr. Moreau"
*Owen Wister - "Red Men and White"
*Emile Zola - "Rome"

New drama

*George Ade - "Artie"
*Anton Chekhov - "The Seagull"
*Alfred Jarry - "Ubu Roi"

Poetry

*Alfred Edward Housman - "A Shropshire Lad"

Non-fiction

*Theodor Herzl - "Der Judenstaat"
*Charles Monroe Sheldon - ""
*Andrew Dickson White - "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom"

Births

*January 7 - Arnold Ridley, dramatist and actor
*January 14 - John Dos Passos, novelist
*February 12 - Dorothy Frooks, author and publisher
*February 18 - André Breton, Surrealist poet and author
*April 16 - Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
*May 3 - Dodie Smith, novelist and dramatist
*June 6 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
*July 19 - A. J. Cronin, novelist
*July 25 - Josephine Tey, crime writer
*August 28 - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short-story writer
*September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (d. 1940)
*October 11 - Roman Jakobson, linguistic theorist
*October 30 - Ruth Gordon, actress and screenwriter ("Adam's Rib")

Deaths

*January 8 - Paul Verlaine, poet
*January 17 - Lady Llanover, patron of the arts in Wales
*June 8 - Jules Simon, philosopher
*July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" author
*July 11 - Ernst Curtius, historian
*July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt, dramatist
*August 17 - Mary Abigail Dodge, essayist
*October 3 - William Morris, poet, novelist and designer
*October 8 - George du Maurier, "Trilby" author
*November 26 - Coventry Patmore, poet
*December 10 - Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize for Literature


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