1868 in literature

1868 in literature

The year 1868 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

*First edition of the World Almanac is published.
*Emile Zola defends his criticized first novel against charges of pornography and corruption of morals.

New books

*Louisa May Alcott - "Little Women"
*R M Ballantyne -"Deep Down"
*Mary Elizabeth Braddon - "Dead-Sea Fruit"
*Mortimer Collins - "Sweet Anne Page"
*Wilkie Collins - "The Moonstone"
*Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Idiot"
*Emile Gaboriau - "Slaves of Paris"
*Hermann Goedsche - "Biarritz"
*Bret Harte - "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
*Sheridan Le Fanu - "Haunted Lives"
*George MacDonald - "Robert Falconer"
*Hesba Stretton - "Little Meg's children"
*Jules Verne - "In Search of the Castaways"
*Emile Zola - "Madeleine Ferat"

Non-fiction

*"The World Almanac and Book of Facts" (first edition)

Births

* February 23 - W. E. B. Du Bois (+ 1963)
* March 28 - Maxim Gorky, author (+ 1936)
* May 6 - Gaston Leroux, author (+ 1927)
* October 18 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (+ 1931)

Deaths

*March 8 - Jón Thoroddsen elder, Icelandic author
*June 18 - Charles Harpur, Australian poet
*September 24 - Henry Hart Milman, historian
*October 18 - Mongkut, King of Siam, subject of the memoirs of Anna Leonowens
*November 30 - August Blanche, Swedish writer, statesman

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