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The year 1887 in literature involved some significant new books.

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Futabatei Shimei
Futabatei Shimei

Futabatei Shimei was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic. Born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke in Edo , Futabatei's works are in the Literary realism style popular in the mid- to late-19th century....
writes Drifting Clouds
The Drifting Cloud

The Drifting Cloud, known as Ukigumo in japanese language, was a novel written in 1887 by Futabatei Shimei, often called the first modern Japanese novel....
, the first modern novel in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
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New books

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a United Kingdom Victorian era popular Novelists. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret....
- Cut by the County
Hall Caine
Hall Caine

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , usually known as Hall Caine, was a United Kingdom author....
- The Deemster
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli

Marie Corelli was a British novelist....
- Thelma
Thelma

Thelma is a female given name meaning "will, volition" in Greek language. Note that although consonant with another female given name, Selma, the two are not synonymous....
F. Marion Crawford - Saracinesca
Saracinesca

Saracinesca is a novel by F. Marion Crawford, first published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine and then as a book in New York and Edinburgh in 1887....
Anna Bowman Dodd - The Republic of the Future
The Republic of the Future

The Republic of the Future: or, Socialism a Reality is a novel by the American writer Anna Bowman Dodd, first published in 1887. The book is a Utopian and dystopian fiction written in response to the utopian literature that was a dramatic and noteworthy feature of the second half of the nineteenth century....
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
- A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet is a detective Mystery fiction novel written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887....
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito P?rez Gald?s was a Spain Spanish Realist literature novelist. Considered second only to Cervantes in stature, he was the greatest Spanish Literary realism novelist....
- Fortunata y Jacinta
Fortunata y Jacinta

Fortunata y Jacinta , was written by Benito P?rez Gald?s in 1887. It is, together with Leopoldo Alas y Ure?a's La Regenta , one of the most popular and representative novels of Spanish literary Literary realism....
H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard Order of the British Empire , was a prolific writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire....
- Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 in literature novel King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels....

Jess
She
She (novel)

She: A History of Adventure is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, and has remained in print to the present day....

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, Order of Merit was an England author of the naturalism movement, though he regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain....
- The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1887....
W. H. Hudson
William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson was an author, natural history, and ornithology....
- A Crystal Age
A Crystal Age

A Crystal Age is a Utopian and dystopian fiction written by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1887 in literature. The book has been called a "significant Science fiction milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later....
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Joris-Karl Huysmans

Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French people novelist who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans; he is most famous for the novel ? rebours ....
- En rade
En rade

En rade is a novel by the France writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. It first appeared as a serial in the magazine La revue ind?pendante between November 1886 and April 1887....
Paolo Mantegazza
Paolo Mantegazza

Paolo Mantegazza was a prominent Italy neurology, physiologist and anthropologist, noted for the isolation of cocaine from coca leaves and his experimental investigation into its effects on the human psyche....
- Testa
Appu Nedungadi
Appu Nedungadi

Appu Nedungadi may refer to:* established Nedungadi bank, the oldest private sector bank in Kerala in the year 1899. Nedungadi bank was incorporated in 1913, and in 1965 had acquired selected assets and deposits of the Coimbatore National Bank....
- Kundalatha
Kundalatha

Kundalatha is a novel by Appu Nedungadi, published in 1887. It is considered to be the first Malayalam novel....
José Rizal
José Rizal

Jos? Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda , was a Philippines polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era....
- Noli Me Tangere
Noli Me Tangere (novel)

Noli Me Tangere is a novel written in Spanish language by Filipino people writer and national hero Jos? Rizal, first published in 1887 in Berlin, Germany....
Futabatei Shimei
Futabatei Shimei

Futabatei Shimei was a Japanese author, translator, and literary critic. Born Hasegawa Tatsunosuke in Edo , Futabatei's works are in the Literary realism style popular in the mid- to late-19th century....
- Drifting Clouds
Drifting Clouds

Drifting Clouds may refer to:* The Drifting Cloud, 1887 Japanese novel by Futabatei Shimei* Drifting Clouds , 1996 Finnish film by Aki Kaurism?ki...
August Strindberg - Hemsöborna
Natives of Hemsö

Natives of Hems? is a 1887 novel by August Strindberg about the life of people of the island Hems? in the Stockholm archipelago. Hems? is a fictional island, but it is based on Kymmend? where Strindberg had spent time in his youth....
Jules Verne
Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....

The Flight to France
The Flight to France

'The Flight to France' is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. Several English language editions were published with the subtitle, The Flight to France; or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon....
North Against South

Emile Zola
Émile Zola

?mile Fran?ois Zola was an influential France writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of Naturalism , an important contributor to the development of Naturalism , and a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus....
- La Terre
La Terre

La Terre is a novel by ?mile Zola, published in 1887. It is the fifteenth novel in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series. The action takes place in a rural community in La Beauce, an area of northern France....

New drama

Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian Short story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature....
- Ivanov
Ivanov (play)

Ivanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.Ivanov was first performed in 1887 in literature, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy....
August Strindberg - The Father
The Father (Strindberg play)

The Father is a play by Sweden playwright August Strindberg, written in 1887....

Non-fiction

Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism.Born in the Russian Empire to a family of Russian people nobles, Bakunin spent his youth as a junior officer in the Russian army but resigned his commission in 1835....
- God and the State
God and the State

God and the State is the best-known literary work of Russian Anarchism, Mikhail Bakunin....
Hall Caine
Hall Caine

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire , usually known as Hall Caine, was a United Kingdom author....
- Life of Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the United Kingdom naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death....
(posthumously published)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
- On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality

On the Genealogy of Morality, or On the Genealogy of Morals , subtitled "A Polemic" , is a work by Germans philosophy Friedrich Nietzsche, composed and first published in 1887 with the intention of expanding and following through on certain new doctrines sketched out in his previous work Beyond Good and Evil....
L. L. Zamenhof
L. L. Zamenhof

Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof was an Ophthalmology, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed for international communication....
- Unua Libro
Unua Libro

The Unua Libro was the first publication to describe the international language Esperanto . It was first published in Russian language on July 26, 1887 in Warsaw, by L....

Births

February 1 - Charles Nordhoff
Charles Nordhoff

Charles Bernard Nordhoff was an England-born United States of America novelist and traveler....
, author (died 1947
1947 in literature

The year 1947 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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February 3 - Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was a preeminent Austrian poet....
, poet (d. 1914
1914 in literature

The year 1914 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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February 11 - John van Melle
John van Melle

John van Melle was the pen name of a Netherlands-born South African author. His real name was Johannes van Melle.Van Melle arrived in South Africa in 1906, and after a short sojourn in the Netherlands East Indies, settled in South Africa permanently in 1913....
, South African writer (d. 1953
1953 in literature

The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was arguably the most important and most translated Greece writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become well known globally until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek , based on Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek whose English translation has the same title....
, poet (d. 1957
1957 in literature

The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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March 3 - Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an England poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the World War I ; however, he never experienced combat at first hand....
, poet (d. 1915
1915 in literature

The year 1915 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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March 14 - Sylvia Beach
Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach , born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of the leading expatriate figures in Paris between World War I and World War II....
, publisher (d. 1962
1962 in literature

The year 1962 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright (d. 1946
1946 in literature

The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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September 1 - Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars

Fr?d?ric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized France in 1916. A writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement....
, writer (d. 1961
1961 in literature

The year 1961 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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Deaths

February 10 - Mrs Henry Wood
Ellen Wood (author)

Ellen Wood , was an English people novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood"....
, novelist (born 1814
1814 in literature

The year 1814 in literature involved some significant events....
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April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes
John Ceiriog Hughes

John Ceiriog Hughes , was a Wales poet and well-known collector of Welsh language folk music tunes. Sometimes referred to as the 'Robert Burns of Wales'....
, poet (b. 1832
1832 in literature

The year 1832 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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May 4 - William Murdoch
William Murdoch (poet)

William Murdoch was a Scottish-Canadian poet.Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, Murdoch migrated to Canada in 1854, aged 31. The following year, he was appointed manager of the gasworks on Partridge Island in 1855....
, poet (b. 1823
1823 in literature

The year 1823 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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August 20 - Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue

Jules Laforgue was an innovative France poet, often referred to as a Symbolism poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist"....
, French poet (b. 1860
1860 in literature

The year 1860 in literature involved some significant new books....
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October 12 - Dinah Craik
Dinah Craik

Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She was born at Stoke-on-Trent and brought up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.After the death of her mother in 1845, Dinah Maria Mulock settled in London about 1846....
, novelist and poet (b. 1826
1826 in literature

The year 1826 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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November 2 - Alfred Domett
Alfred Domett

Alfred Domett, Order of St Michael and St George was an England colonial statesman and poet. He was born at Camberwell Grove, Surrey; his father was a ship-owner....
, poet (b. 1811
1811 in literature

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility....
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November 19 - Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus was an USA poet born in New York City.She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its final lines were engraved on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912....
, American poet (b. 1859
1859 in literature

The year 1859 in literature involved some significant new books....
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December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow
Eliza Roxcy Snow

Eliza Roxcy Snow Young was one of the most celebrated Latter-day Saint women of the nineteenth century. A renowned poet, she chronicled history, celebrated nature and relationships, and expounded scripture and doctrine....
, American poet (b. 1804
1804 in literature

The year 1804 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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date unknown

Frances Browne
Frances Browne

Frances Browne was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair....
, poet and novelist (b. 1816
1816 in literature

The year 1816 in literature involved some significant new books....
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Emilia Tennyson
Emilia Tennyson

Emilia Tennyson , known simply as Emily within her family, was a younger sister of Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the fianc?e of Arthur Henry Hallam, for whom Tennyson's great poem, In Memoriam A.H.H., was written....
, sister of Alfred Tennyson and fiancée of Arthur Hallam
Arthur Hallam

Arthur Henry Hallam was an England poet, best known as the subject of a major work by his best friend, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Hallam has been described as the jeune homme fatal of his generation....
(b. 1811
1811 in literature

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility....
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