1888 IN LITERATURE

The year '1888 in literature' involved some significant new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

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New books

★ Grant Allen

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★ ''The Devil's Die''

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★ ''The White Man's Foot''

★ Edward Bellamy - ''Looking Backward''

★ Rolf Boldrewood - ''Robbery Under Arms''

★ Mary Elizabeth Braddon - ''The Fatal Three''

★ Edmondo De Amicis - ''Heart''

★ James De Mille - ''A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder''

★ H. Rider Haggard - ''Maiwa's Revenge''

★ Henry James

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★ ''The Aspern Papers''

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★ ''Princess Casamassima''

★ Rudyard Kipling - ''The Man Who Would Be King''

★ Herman Melville - ''John Marr and Other Sailors''

★ George A. Moore

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★ ''Confessions of a Young Man''

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★ ''Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan''

★ Raul Pompéia - ''O Ateneu''

★ José Maria Eça de Queirós - ''Os Maias''

★ Robert Louis Stevenson

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★ ''The Black Arrow''

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★ ''Master of Ballantrae''

★ Jules Verne

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★ ''Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom)''

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★ ''Two Years' Vacation''

★ Ivan Vazov - ''Under The Yoke''

★ 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