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★ 20th century in literature - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s

★ 19th century in literature - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - 1840s - 1830s - 1820s - 1810s - 1800s

★ 18th century in literature - 1790s - 1780s - 1770s - 1760s - 1750s - 1740s - 1730s - 1720s - 1710s - 1700s

★ 17th century in literature - 1690s - 1680s - 1670s - 1660s - 1650s - 1640s - 1630s - 1620s - 1610s - 1600s

★ '16th century in literature' – 1590s

★ '15th century in literature'

★ '14th century in literature' – ''Canterbury Tales'' – Geoffrey Chaucer

★ '13th century in literature' – ''Parzival'' – Wolfram von Eschenbach

★ '12th century in literature' – ''Li Contes di Graal'' – Chrétien de Troyes

★ '11th century in literature'

★ '10th century in literature'

★ 'Early Medieval literature'

★ 'Ancient literature'

2000s

★ '2007 in literature' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' - J.K. Rowling

★ '2006 in literature' Daniel Handler, The End, 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events; Richard Dawkins - ''The God Delusion''

★ '2005 in literature' - ''Haunted'' - Chuck Palahniuk; ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' - J.K. Rowling

★ '2004 in literature' - ''Free Culture'' - Lawrence Lessig

★ '2003 in literature' - ''The Da Vinci Code'' - Dan Brown; ''Hegemony or Survival'' - Noam Chomsky; ''Roman Triptych (Meditation)'' - John Paul II

★ '2002 in literature' - ''Atonement'' - Ian McEwan; '' - Margaret MacMillan

★ '2001 in literature' - ''Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' – Laura Hillenbrand; ''Life of Pi'' - Yann Martel

★ '2000 in literature' - Naomi Klein, No Logo

1990s

★ '1999 in literature' - ''Chocolat'' - Joanne Harris

★ '1998 in literature' - J.K. Rowling - ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''

★ '1997 in literature' - ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' - J. K. Rowling; ''Underworld'' - Don DeLillo

★ '1996 in literature' - ''Angela's Ashes'' - Frank McCourt; ''Left Behind'' - Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

★ '1995 in literature' - ''The Celestine Prophecy'' - James Redfield; ''Blindness'' - José Saramago

★ '1994 in literature' - ''The Stone Diaries'' - Carol Shields

★ '1993 in literature' - ''The Christmas Box'' – Richard Paul Evans; ''Trainspotting'' - Irvine Welsh

★ '1992 in literature' - ''The English Patient'' - Michael Ondaatje

★ '1991 in literature' - ''Such a Long Journey'' - Rohinton Mistry

★ '1990 in literature' - ''Vertigo'' - W.G. Sebald

1980s

★ '1989 in literature' - ''Remains of the Day'' - Kazuo Ishiguro; ''The Joy Luck Club'' - Amy Tan

★ '1988 in literature' - ''Oscar and Lucinda'' - Peter Carey; ''The Satanic Verses'' - Salman Rushdie, ''Curriculum'' - Grazyna Miller

★ '1987 in literature' - ''Beloved'' - Toni Morrison

★ '1986 in literature' - ''Extinction'' - Thomas Bernhard

★ '1985 in literature' - ''The Handmaid's Tale'' - Margaret Atwood; ''Love in the Time of Cholera'' - Gabriel García Márquez

★ '1984 in literature' - ''White Noise'' - Don DeLillo; ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' - Milan Kundera

★ '1983 in literature' - ''On Wings of Eagles'' - Ken Follett; ''Shame'' - Salman Rushdie

★ '1982 in literature' - ''The Color Purple'' - Alice Walker

★ '1981 in literature' - ''The Blue Bicycle'' - Régine Deforges; ''Midnight's Children'' - Salman Rushdie

★ '1980 in literature' - ''Smiley's People'' - John le Carré; ''Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose)'' - Umberto Eco

1970s

★ '1979 in literature' - ''Kane and Abel'' - Jeffrey Archer; ''A Bend in the River'' - V.S. Naipaul

★ '1978 in literature' - ''The World According to Garp'' - John Irving

★ '1977 in literature' - ''The Sea, the Sea'' - Iris Murdoch; ''Song of Soloman'' - Toni Morrison

★ '1976 in literature' - ''Triton'' - Samuel R. Delany

★ '1975 in literature' - ''The Book of Sand'' - Jorge Luis Borges

★ '1974 in literature' - ''Carrie'' - Stephen King

★ '1973 in literature' - ''Burr'' - Gore Vidal; ''Gravity's Rainbow'' - Thomas Pynchon

★ '1972 in literature' - ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull'' - Richard Bach

★ '1971 in literature' - ''The End of Summer'' - Rosamunde Pilcher

★ '1970 in literature' - ''Deliverance'' - James Dickey

1960s

★ '1969 in literature' - ''Portnoy's Complaint'' - Philip Roth; ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' - Kurt Vonnegut; '' - Vladimir Nabokov

★ '1968 in literature' - ''Airport'' - Arthur Hailey; ''Belle du Seigneur'' - Albert Cohen

★ '1967 in literature' - ''Wild Season'' - Allan W. Eckert; ''Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)'' - Gabriel García Márquez; '' - Vladimir Nabokov

★ '1966 in literature' - ''The Master and Margarita'' - Mikhail Bulgakov; ''The Crying of Lot 49'' - Thomas Pynchon; ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' - Jean Rhys; ''In Cold Blood'' - Truman Capote

★ '1965 in literature' - ''Herzog'' - Saul Bellow; ''An American Dream'' - Norman Mailer; ''The Magus'' - John Fowles

★ '1964 in literature' - ''Little Big Man'' - Thomas Berger

★ '1963 in literature' - ''Planet of the Apes'' (''La Planete des Singes'') - Pierre Boulle; ''V'' - Thomas Pynchon; ''The Bell Jar'' - Sylvia Plath; ''Cat's Cradle'' - Kurt Vonnegut

★ '1962 in literature' - ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' - Ken Kesey; ''Pale Fire'' - Vladimir Nabokov; ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; ''The Golden Notebook'' - Doris Lessing; ''Labyrinths'' - Jorge Luis Borges

★ '1961 in literature' - ''Catch-22'' - Joseph Heller; ''A House for Mr. Biswas'' - V. S. Naipaul

★ '1960 in literature' - ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' - Harper Lee

1950s

★ '1959 in literature' - ''In the Labyrinth'' - Alain Robbe-Grillet; ''The Tin Drum'' - Günter Grass; ''Billiards at Half-past Nine'' - Heinrich Boll

★ '1958 in literature' - ''The Grass'' - Claude Simon; ''The Guide'' - R. K. Narayan

★ '1957 in literature' - ''On the Road'' - Jack Kerouac; ''Pnin'' - Vladimir Nabokov; ''Voss'' - Patrick White

★ '1956 in literature' - ''The Visit'' - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

★ '1955 in literature' - ''Tunnel in the Sky'' – Robert A. Heinlein; ''Lolita'' – Vladimir Nabokov; ''The Return of the King'' - J. R. R. Tolkien

★ '1954 in literature' - ''Lord of the Flies'' - William Golding; ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' - J. R. R. Tolkien; ''The Two Towers'' - J. R. R. Tolkien

★ '1953 in literature' - ''Casino Royale'' - Ian Fleming - First James Bond novel; ''The Adventures of Augie March'' - Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury ''Fahrenheit 451''

★ '1952 in literature' - ''Waiting for Godot'' - Samuel Beckett; ''Charlotte's Web'' - E.B. White; ''The Old Man and the Sea'' - Ernest Hemingway

★ '1951 in literature' - ''The Catcher in the Rye'' - J.D. Salinger; ''Memoirs of Hadrian'' - Marguerite Yourcenar

★ '1950 in literature' - ''The Bald Soprano'' - Eugène Ionesco; ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' - C.S. Lewis

1940s

★ '1949 in literature' - George Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' and Arthur Miller's ''Death of a Salesman''

★ '1948 in literature' - Norman Mailer's ''The Naked and the Dead'' and Graham Greene's ''The Heart of the Matter''

★ '1947 in literature' - ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' - Anne Frank

★ '1946 in literature' - ''The Iceman Cometh'' - Eugene O'Neill

★ '1945 in literature' - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a labour camp for criticism of Stalin.

★ '1944 in literature' - ''Our Lady of the Flowers'' - Jean Genet; ''A Bell for Adano'' – John Hersey

★ '1943 in literature' - T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets'' published together for the first time; ''Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game)'' - Hermann Hesse

★ '1942 in literature' - ''The Stranger'' - Albert Camus

★ '1941 in literature' - ''Between the Acts'' - Virginia Woolf

★ '1940 in literature' - ''Native Son'' - Richard Wright; ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' - Ernest Hemingway; ''The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'' - Carson McCullers

1930s

★ '1939 in literature' - ''The Day of the Locust'' - Nathanael West; ''The Grapes of Wrath'' - John Steinbeck; ''How Green Was My Valley'' - Richard Llewellyn

★ '1938 in literature' - ''La Nausée'' - Jean-Paul Sartre; ''The Sword in the Stone'' - T. H. White

★ '1937 in literature' - ''Of Mice and Men'' - John Steinbeck; ''Journal d'un Curé de Campagne (Diary of a Country Priest)'' - Georges Bernanos

★ '1936 in literature' - ''Jamaica Inn'' - Daphne du Maurier

★ '1935 in literature' - Penguin Books publishes the first paperback

★ '1934 in literature' - ''I, Claudius'' - Robert Graves; ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' - James Hilton; ''Tender Is the Night'' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

★ '1933 in literature' - ''Testament of Youth'' - Vera Brittain; ''La Condition Humaine'' ''(Man's Fate)'' - André Malraux

★ '1932 in literature' - ''Brave New World'' - Aldous Huxley; ''Voyage au Bout de la Nuit'' ''(Journey to the End of the Night)'' - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

★ '1931 in literature' - ''The Good Earth'' - Pearl S. Buck; first Maigret novel by Georges Simenon

★ '1930 in literature' - ''The Maltese Falcon'' - Dashiell Hammett; Luigi Pirandello's ''The Man With the Flower in His Mouth'' becomes the first broadcast television drama

1920s

★ '1929 in literature' - ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' - Alfred Döblin; ''A Farewell to Arms'' - Ernest Hemingway; ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' - Erich Maria Remarque; ''Goodbye to All That'' - Robert Graves; ''The Sound and the Fury'' - William Faulkner

★ '1928 in literature' - ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' - D. H. Lawrence; ''The Threepenny Opera'' - Bertholt Brecht

★ '1927 in literature' - ''The Snake Pit'' - Sigrid Undset; ''To the Lighthouse'' - Virginia Woolf

★ '1926 in literature' - ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' - A. A. Milne; ''The Sun Also Rises'' - Ernest Hemingway; Sean O'Casey's play, ''The Plough and the Stars''

★ '1925 in literature' - ''The Great Gatsby'' - F. Scott Fitzgerald; ''Mrs. Dalloway'' - Virginia Woolf; ''Der Prozeß'' ''(The Trial)'' - Franz Kafka

★ '1924 in literature' - ''Billy Budd, Foretopman'' - Herman Melville; ''A Passage to India'' - E. M. Forster; ''Der Zauberberg'' ''(The Magic Mountain)'' - Thomas Mann

★ '1923 in literature' - Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in print.

★ '1922 in literature' - ''Ulysses'' - James Joyce; ''The Waste Land'' - T. S. Eliot; Marcel Proust dies - ''In Search of Lost Time'' completed

★ '1921 in literature' - Karel Čapek's play, ''R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)''

★ '1920 in literature' - ''The Age of Innocence'' - Edith Wharton; ''Women in Love'' - D. H. Lawrence

1910s

★ '1919 in literature' - ''The Moon and Sixpence'' - W. Somerset Maugham

★ '1918 in literature' - ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' - Booth Tarkington; ''Eminent Victorians'' - Lytton Strachey

★ '1917 in literature' - ''Prufrock and Other Observations'' - T.S. Eliot

★ '1916 in literature' - ''Relativity'' - Albert Einstein; ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' - James Joyce

★ '1915 in literature' - ''The Metamorphosis'' - Franz Kafka

★ '1914 in literature' - ''Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich'' - Stephen Leacock

★ '1913 in literature' - ''Alcools'' - Guillaume Apollinaire, ''Petersburg'' - Andrei Bely; ''Sons and Lovers'' - D. H. Lawrence

★ '1912 in literature' - ''Death in Venice'' - Thomas Mann

★ '1911 in literature' - 11th edition of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' published

★ '1910 in literature' - ''Howards End'' - E. M. Forster

1900s

★ '1909 in literature' - ''The Song of Songs'' - Hermann Sudermann

★ '1908 in literature' - ''Anne of Green Gables'' - Lucy Maud Montgomery; ''L'Île des Pingouins'' ''(Penguin Island)'' - Anatole France; ''The Wind in the Willows'' - Kenneth Grahame

★ '1907 in literature' - ''The City of Pleasure'' - Arnold Bennett

★ '1906 in literature' - ''The House of Souls'' - Arthur Machen

★ '1905 in literature' - ''White Fang'' - Jack London

★ '1904 in literature' - ''Nostromo'' - Joseph Conrad

★ '1903 in literature' - ''The Souls of Black Folk'' - W. E. B. DuBois; ''The Ambassadors'' - Henry James

★ '1902 in literature' - ''The Immoralist'' - André Gide; ''The Wings of the Dove'' - Henry James

★ '1901 in literature' - ''Buddenbrooks'' - Thomas Mann

★ '1900 in literature' - ''Sister Carrie'' - Theodore Dreiser

1890s

★ '1899 in literature' - ''The School and Society'' - John Dewey; ''The Awakening'' - Kate Chopin; ''Heart of darkness'' - Joseph Conrad

★ '1898 in literature' - ''Paris'' - Emile Zola

★ '1897 in literature' - ''Captains Courageous'' - Rudyard Kipling; ''Dracula'' - Bram Stoker

★ '1896 in literature' - ''The Well at the World's End'' - William Morris

★ '1895 in literature' - ''Almayer's Folly'' - Joseph Conrad; ''Pharaoh'' - Bolesław Prus; ''Jude the Obscure'' - Thomas Hardy

★ '1894 in literature' - ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' - Anthony Hope ; ''Pan'' - Knut Hamsun

★ '1893 in literature' - ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' - Oscar Wilde; ''The New Woman'' - Bolesław Prus

★ '1892 in literature' - ''Children of the Ghetto'' - Israel Zangwill

★ '1891 in literature' - ''Diary of a Pilgrimage'' - Jerome K. Jerome; ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' - Thomas Hardy

★ '1890 in literature' - ''Hedda Gabler'' - Henrik Ibsen; ''Hunger'' - Knut Hamsun

1880s

★ '1889 in literature' - ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' - Friedrich Nietzsche; ''The Doll'' - Bolesław Prus

★ '1888 in literature' - ''Confessions of a Young Man'' - George A. Moore

★ '1887 in literature' - ''Thelma'' - Marie Corelli

★ '1886 in literature' - ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' - Frances Hodgson Burnett; ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' - Robert Louis Stevenson; ''The Outpost'' - Bolesław Prus

★ '1885 in literature' - ''Marius the Epicurean'' - Walter Pater; Lord Alfred Tennyson completes ''Idylls of the King''; ''Germinal'' - Émile Zola; George A. Moore - The Mummer's Wife; ''The Mikado'' - Gilbert and Sullivan

★ '1884 in literature' - ''Miss Bretherton'' - Mary Augusta Ward; ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' - Mark Twain

★ '1883 in literature' - ''Une Vie'' - Guy de Maupassant; ''Treasure Island'' - Robert Louis Stevenson; ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' - Carlo Collodi

★ '1882 in literature' - ''The Naval War of 1812'' - Theodore Roosevelt

★ '1881 in literature' - ''The Black Robe'' - Wilkie Collins

★ '1880 in literature' - ''Workers in the Dawn'' - George Gissing; ''Nana'' - Émile Zola; ''The Brothers Karamazov'' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

1870s

★ '1879 in literature' - ''The Red Room'' - August Strindberg; ''A Doll's House'' - Henrik Ibsen

★ '1878 in literature' - ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' - Gilbert and Sullivan

★ '1877 in literature' - ''Under the Lilacs'' - Louisa May Alcott; ''Anna Karenina'' - Leo Tolstoy

★ '1876 in literature' - ''The Shadow of the Sword'' - Robert Buchanan

★ '1875 in literature' - ''The Way We Live Now'' - Anthony Trollope

★ '1874 in literature' - ''Les Diaboliques'' - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly; ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' - Thomas Hardy

★ '1873 in literature' - ''The Poison Tree'' - Bankim Chatterjee

★ '1872 in literature' - ''The Birth of Tragedy'' - Friedrich Nietzsche

★ '1871 in literature' - ''Middlemarch'' - George Eliot

★ '1870 in literature' - ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'' - Jules Verne

1860s

★ '1869 in literature' - ''War and Peace'' - Leo Tolstoy; ''L'Education Sentimentale'' - Gustav Flaubert; ''The Idiot'' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

★ '1868 in literature' - ''Little Women'' - Louisa May Alcott

★ '1867 in literature' - ''Cometh Up as a Flower'' - Rhoda Broughton

★ '1866 in literature' - ''Surry of Eagle's-Nest'' - John Esten Cooke; ''Crime and Punishment'' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

★ '1865 in literature' - ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' - Lewis Carroll; ''Our Mutual Friend'' - Charles Dickens

★ '1864 in literature' - ''Renee Mauperin'' - Edmond de Goncourt

★ '1863 in literature' - ''Capitan Fracassa'' - Theophile Gautier

★ '1862 in literature' - ''Les Misérables'' - Victor Hugo

★ '1861 in literature' - ''Framley Parsonage'' - Anthony Trollope; ''Great Expectations'' - Charles Dickens; ''East Lynne'' - Mrs Henry Wood

★ '1860 in literature' - ''Max Havelaar'' - Multatuli; ''The Mill on the Floss'' - George Eliot

1850s

★ '1859 in literature' - ''A Tale of Two Cities'' - Charles Dickens

★ '1858 in literature' - ''A House of Gentlefolk'' - Ivan Turgenev

★ '1857 in literature' - ''Madame Bovary'' - Gustave Flaubert; ''Little Dorritt'' - Charles Dickens; ''Les Fleurs du mal'' - Charles Baudelaire

★ '1856 in literature' - ''The Daisy Chain'' - Charlotte Mary Yonge; ''Aurora Leigh'' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

★ '1855 in literature' - ''Westward Ho!'' - Charles Kingsley

★ '1854 in literature' - ''The Newcomers'' - William Makepeace Thackeray

★ '1853 in literature' - ''Bleak House'' is the first English novel to feature a detective

★ '1852 in literature' - ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' - Harriet Beecher Stowe

★ '1851 in literature' - ''Moby-Dick'' - Herman Melville

★ '1850 in literature' - ''The Arabian Nights'' - ''Household Words'' begins publication

1840s

★ '1849 in literature' - ''The Oregon Trail'' - Francis Parkman

★ '1848 in literature' - ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' - Anne Brontë; ''Vanity Fair'' - William Makepeace Thackery

★ '1847 in literature' - ''Wuthering Heights'' - Emily Brontë; ''Jane Eyre'' - Charlotte Brontë

★ '1846 in literature' - ''The Children of the Night'' - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

★ '1845 in literature' - ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' - Alexandre Dumas, père

★ '1844 in literature' - ''Les Paysans'' - Honoré de Balzac

★ '1843 in literature' - ''Windsor Castle'' - William Harrison Ainsworth

★ '1842 in literature' - ''Dead Souls'' - Nikolai Gogol

★ '1841 in literature' - ''The Bronze Horseman'' - Alexander Pushkin

★ '1840 in literature' - ''Two Years Before the Mast'' - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

1830s

★ '1839 in literature' - ''The Voyage of the Beagle'' - Charles Darwin; ''Oliver Twist'' - Charles Dickens; ''Nicholas Nickleby'' - Charles Dickens

★ '1838 in literature' - ''The Birds of America'' - John James Audubon

★ '1837 in literature' - ''Live and Let Live'' - Catharine Maria Sedgwick; ''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'' - Charles Dickens

★ '1836 in literature' - ''Poems'' - Oliver Wendell Holmes

★ '1835 in literature' - ''Souvenirs'' - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun; ''Le Père Goriot'' - Honoré de Balzac

★ '1834 in literature' - ''Sartor Resartus'' - Thomas Carlyle

★ '1833 in literature' - ''Gamiani'' - Alfred de Musset; ''Eugene Onegin'' - Aleksandr Pushkin; ''Eugénie Grandet'' - Honoré de Balzac

★ '1832 in literature' - ''Valentine'' - George Sand; ''Faust'' Part Two - Goethe

★ '1831 in literature' - ''The Young Duke'' - Benjamin Disraeli; ''Notre-Dame de Paris'' - Victor Hugo

★ '1830 in literature' - ''The Red and the Black'' - Stendhal

1820s

★ '1829 in literature' - ''The Misfortunes of Elphin'' - Thomas Love Peacock

★ '1828 in literature' - ''The Birds of America'' - John James Audubon

★ '1827 in literature' - ''Book of Songs'' (poetry) - Heinrich Heine

★ '1826 in literature' - ''Cinq-Mars'' - Alfred de Vigny

★ '1825 in literature' - ''The Betrothed'' - Alessandro Manzoni

★ '1824 in literature' - ''Our Village'' - Mary Russell Mitford

★ '1823 in literature' - ''Posthumous Poems'' - Percy Bysshe Shelley

★ '1822 in literature' - ''Trilby'' - Charles Nodier

★ '1821 in literature' - ''Confessions of an English Opium Eater'' - Thomas De Quincey

★ '1820 in literature' - ''Méditations Poétiques'' - Lamartine

1810s

★ '1819 in literature' - ''The Sketch Book'' - Washington Irving; ''Ode to a Nightingale'' - John Keats

★ '1818 in literature' - ''Frankenstein'' - Mary Shelley

★ '1817 in literature' - ''Ormond and Harrington'' - Maria Edgeworth

★ '1816 in literature' - ''Adolphe'' - Benjamin Constant; ''Emma'' - Jane Austen; ''The Sandman'' - E.T.A. Hoffman

★ '1815 in literature' - ''The Pastor's Fireside'' - Jane Porter

★ '1814 in literature' - ''The Wanderer'' - Fanny Burney; ''Mansfield Park'' - Jane Austen

★ '1813 in literature' - ''The Swiss Family Robinson'' - Johann David Wyss; ''Pride and Prejudice'' - Jane Austen

★ '1812 in literature' - ''The Milesian Chief'' - Charles Robert Maturin; ''Children's and Household Tales'' - The Brothers Grimm

★ '1811 in literature' - ''Sense and Sensibility'' - Jane Austen

★ '1810 in literature' - ''The Houses of Osma and Almeria'' - Regina Maria Roche

1800s

★ '1809 in literature' - ''The Martyrs'' - François-René de Chateaubriand

★ '1808 in literature' - ''Faust'' (Part One) - Goethe

★ '1807 in literature' - ''Tales from Shakespeare'' - Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

★ '1806 in literature' - ''The Earthquake in Chile'' - Heinrich von Kleist

★ '1805 in literature' - ''The Wonder of the Village'' - Mary Meeke

★ '1804 in literature' - ''Jerusalem'' (poetry) - William Blake

★ '1803 in literature' - ''St. Clair of the Isles'' - Elisabeth Helme

★ '1802 in literature' - ''Delphine'' - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

★ '1801 in literature' - ''The Wizard and the Sword'' - Henry Summersett

★ '1800 in literature' - ''Hymns to the Night'' - Novalis

1790s

★ '1799 in literature' - ''Arthur Mervyn'' - Charles Brockden Brown

★ '1798 in literature' - ''Lyrical Ballads'' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth; ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

★ '1797 in literature' - ''l'Histoire de Juliette'' - Marquis de Sade; ''Kubla Khan'' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

★ '1796 in literature' - ''Camilla'' - Fanny Burney

★ '1795 in literature' - ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'' (to 1796) - Goethe

★ '1794 in literature' - ''The Age of Reason'' - Thomas Paine

★ '1793 in literature' - ''Songs of Experience'' - William Blake

★ '1792 in literature' - ''A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'' - Mary Wollstonecraft

★ '1791 in literature' - ''The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.'' - James Boswell

★ '1790 in literature' - ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'' - Edmund Burke; ''Tam O'Shanter'' - Robert Burns

1780s

★ '1789 in literature' - ''Songs of Innocence'' - William Blake

★ '1788 in literature' - ''Memoirs'' - Saint-Simon

★ '1787 in literature' - ''Don Carlos'' - Friedrich Schiller

★ '1786 in literature' - ''Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'' - Robert Burns

★ '1785 in literature' - ''Anton Reiser'' (to 1790) - Karl Philipp Moritz

★ '1784 in literature' - ''Barham Downs'' - Robert Bage

★ '1783 in literature' - ''Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics'' - Immanuel Kant

★ '1782 in literature' - ''The Robbers'' - Friedrich Schiller ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'' - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

★ '1781 in literature' - ''A Critique of Pure Reason'' - Immanuel Kant

★ '1780 in literature' -

1770s

★ '1779 in literature' - ''Nathan the Wise'' - Gotthold Lessing; ''Fables and Parables'' - Ignacy Krasicki

★ '1778 in literature' - ''Evelina'' - Fanny Burney

★ '1777 in literature' -

★ '1776 in literature' - ''Common Sense'' - Thomas Paine

★ '1775 in literature' - ''The Rivals'' - Richard Sheridan

★ '1774 in literature' - ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' - Goethe

★ '1773 in literature' - ''Der Messias'' (from 1749) - Klopstock; ''Jaques le fataliste'' - Denis Diderot

★ '1772 in literature' -

★ '1771 in literature' - ''Jacques le fataliste et son maître'' (to 1773) - Diderot

★ '1770 in literature' -

1760s

★ '1769 in literature' - ''The History of Emily Montague'' - Frances Brooke

★ '1768 in literature' - ''Poems'' - Thomas Gray

★ '1767 in literature' - ''Minna von Barnhelm'' - Gotthold Lessing

★ '1766 in literature' - ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' - Oliver Goldsmith

★ '1765 in literature' - Beginning of the Sturm und Drang movement

★ '1764 in literature' - ''The Castle of Otranto'' - Horace Walpole

★ '1763 in literature' - James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson

★ '1762 in literature' - ''Émile'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

★ '1761 in literature' - ''Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

★ '1760 in literature' - ''Tristram Shandy'' (to 1770) - Laurence Sterne

1750s

★ '1759 in literature' - ''Candide'' - Voltaire

★ '1758 in literature' - Voltaire buys his estate at Ferney

★ '1757 in literature' - Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his surname to Beaumarchais

★ '1756 in literature' - Gilbert White becomes curate of Selborne, Hampshire

★ '1755 in literature' - ''Letter to Lord Chesterfield'' - Samuel Johnson

★ '1754 in literature' - ''The History of Great Britain'' (to 1762) - David Hume

★ '1753 in literature' - ''Sir Charles Grandison'' (to 1754) - Samuel Richardson

★ '1752 in literature' - Birth of Fanny Burney

★ '1751 in literature' - ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' - Thomas Gray

★ '1750 in literature' - ''Rambler'' essays (to 1752) - Samuel Johnson

1740s

★ '1749 in literature' - ''Tom Jones'' - Henry Fielding

★ '1748 in literature' - ''An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'' - David Hume

★ '1747 in literature' - ''Clarissa'' (to 1748) - Samuel Richardson

★ '1746 in literature' - Voltaire is elected to the French Academy

★ '1745 in literature' - Death of Jonathan Swift

★ '1744 in literature' - ''The Female Spectator'' is launched by Eliza Haywood

★ '1743 in literature' - ''The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great'' - Henry Fielding

★ '1742 in literature' - ''Joseph Andrews'' - Henry Fielding

★ '1741 in literature' - ''Shamela'' - Henry Fielding

★ '1740 in literature' - ''Institutions de physique'' – Émilie du Châtelet

1730s

★ '1739 in literature' - ''A Treatise of Human Nature'' (to 1740) - David Hume

★ '1738 in literature' - ''Leonidas'' - Richard Glover

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★ '1732 in literature' - ''Essay on Man'' (to 1744) - Alexander Pope

★ '1731 in literature' - ''Insel Felsenburg'' (to 1743) - Johann Schnabel

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1720s

★ '1729 in literature' - Death of William Congreve

★ '1728 in literature' - Alexander Pope, ''The Dunciad''

★ '1727 in literature' - Eliza Haywood, ''Philidore and Placentia''

★ '1726 in literature' - Jonathan Swift, ''Gulliver's Travels''

★ '1725 in literature' - Birth of Giacomo Casanova

★ '1724 in literature' - Voltaire, ''Henriade''

★ '1723 in literature' - Births of Richard Price and Adam Smith; deaths of Susannah Centlivre and Marianna Alcoforado

★ '1722 in literature' - Daniel Defoe, ''Moll Flanders''

★ '1721 in literature' - Montesquieu, ''Persian Letters''

★ '1720 in literature' - Daniel Defoe, ''Memoirs of a Cavalier''

1710s

★ '1719 in literature' - ''Robinson Crusoe'' - Daniel Defoe

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★ '1716 in literature'

★ '1715 in literature' - Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain

★ '1714 in literature' - Bernard de Mandeville, ''The Fable of the Bees''

★ '1713 in literature' - Birth of Laurence Sterne

★ '1712 in literature' - Alexander Pope, ''The Rape of the Lock''

★ '1711 in literature' - ''The Spectator'' is founded by Addison and Steele

★ '1710 in literature' - Colley Cibber becomes manager of Drury Lane

1700s

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★ '1705 in literature' - Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain ("New Essays on Human Understanding") - Gottfried Leibniz

★ '1704 in literature' - A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift

★ '1703 in literature' - ''The Storm'' - Daniel Defoe (released 1704)

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1690s

★ '1699 in literature'

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★ '1692 in literature'

★ '1691 in literature' - ''Athalie'' - Jean Racine

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1680s

★ '1689 in literature'

★ '1688 in literature'

★ '1687 in literature' - Isaac Newton - ''Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica''

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1670s

★ '1679 in literature'

★ '1678 in literature' - ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' - John Bunyan

★ '1677 in literature' - ''Phèdre'' - Jean Racine

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★ '1675 in literature'

★ '1674 in literature' ''Nouveaux contes'' - Jean de la Fontaine

★ '1673 in literature'

★ '1672 in literature' - ''Les Femmes Savantes'' - Molière

★ '1671 in literature'

★ '1670 in literature' - ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'' - Molière

1660s

★ '1669 in literature' - Jean Racine's ''Britannicus''

★ '1668 in literature' - Birth of Alain-René Lesage

★ '1667 in literature' - John Milton's ''Paradise Lost''

★ '1666 in literature' - Gottfried Leibniz's ''De Arte Combinatoria ('On the Art of Combination')''

★ '1665 in literature' - ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' begins publication

★ '1664 in literature' - Molière's ''Tartuffe''

★ '1663 in literature'

★ '1662 in literature' - Molière's ''L'école des femmes''

★ '1661 in literature'

★ '1660 in literature' - Samuel Pepys opens his diary

1650s

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1640s

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1630s

★ '1639 in literature'

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1620s

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★ '1620 in literature' – ''Novum Organum'' – Francis Bacon

1610s

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★ '1616 in literature'

★ '1615 in literature' - ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' (Part 2) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

★ '1614 in literature'

★ '1613 in literature' - ''Henry VIII - William Shakespeare

★ '1612 in literature'

★ '1611 in literature' - ''The Tempest'' - William Shakespeare

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1600s

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★ '1606 in literature'

★ '1605 in literature' - ''King Lear'' - William Shakespeare; ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' (Part 1) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

★ '1604 in literature'

★ '1603 in literature' - ''Measure for Measure'' - William Shakespeare

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1590s

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