1888 in literature

1888 in literature

The year 1888 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

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New books

*Grant Allen
**"The Devil's Die"
**"The White Man's Foot"
*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"
**"Princess Casamassima"
*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
**"Confessions of a Young Man"
**"Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan"
*Raul Pompéia - "O Ateneu"
*José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - "Os Maias"
*Robert Louis Stevenson - "The Black Arrow"
*Jules Verne
**"Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom)"
**"Two Years' Vacation"
*Lew Wallace - "The Boyhood of Christ"
*Mary Augusta Ward - "Robert Elsmere"

New drama

*Sarah Bernhardt - "L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose"

Non-fiction

*Joseph Bertrand - "Calcul des probabilités"
*John D. Billings - "Hard Tack and Coffee"
*Helena Blavatsky - "The Secret Doctrine"

Births

* January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer
* April 26 - Anita Loos, novelist, screenwriter
* July 23 - Raymond Chandler, novelist, screenwriter
* September 26 - T. S. Eliot, poet, playwright
* October 14 - Katherine Mansfield short story writer
* October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright
* Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator
* Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer

Deaths

* March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
* April 15 - Matthew Arnold, poet
* May 12 - Edward Lear, poet
* August 9 - Charles Cros, French poet
* August 20 - Henry Richard, political writer
* September 24 - Karl von Prantl, philosopher
* December 8 - Frederick Apthorp Paley, scholar
* December 23 - Laurence Oliphant, travel writer

Awards

*Newdigate prize - Arthur Waugh


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