1883 in literature

1883 in literature

The year 1883 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*The Modern Language Association forms

New books

*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Phantom Fortune"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Belinda"
*Wilkie Collins - "Heart and Science"
*Jonas Lie - "Familien paa Gilje (The Gilje family)"
*George A. Moore - "A Modern Lover"
*Guy de Maupassant - "Une Vie"
*Friedrich Nietzsche - "Also sprach Zarathustra"
*Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - "Gladys Fane"
*Robert Louis Stevenson - "Treasure Island"
*Jules Verne - "Kéraban the Inflexible"

New drama

*Frances Hodgson Burnett & William Gillette - "Esmeralda"
*François Coppée - "Severo Torelli"
*George Robert Sims - "In the Ranks"
*August Strindberg - "Lucky Pehr"

Non-fiction

*Hall Caine - "Cobwebs of Criticism"
*Mark Twain - "Life on the Mississippi"

Births

* January 6 - Khalil Gibran, poet, novelist (d. 1931)
* January 10 - Aleksei Tolstoy, writer (d. 1945)
* February 15 - Sax Rohmer, author (d. 1959)
* April 11 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
* April 30 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
* June 3 - Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (d. 1924)
* Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer

Deaths

*January 21 – Anna Eliza Bray, novelist
*March 14 – Karl Marx, philosopher
*December 13 – Victor de Laprade, poet and critic
*"date unknown" – Gustave Aimard, novelist


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