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• Grant Allen
  Grant Allen
  
  Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the theory of evolution....
   - The Devil's Die
• The White Man's Foot
• Edward Bellamy
  Edward Bellamy
  
  Edward Bellamy was an United States author and socialist, most famous for his utopia novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000....
   - Looking Backward
  Looking Backward
  
  Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Western Massachusetts, and was first published in 1888 in literature....
  
• Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms
  Robbery Under Arms
  
  Robbery Under Arms is a classic Australian novel by Rolf Boldrewood . It was first published in serialised form by the Sydney Mail between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in London in 1888....
  
• 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....
   - The Fatal Three
• James De Mille
  James De Mille
  
  James De Mille was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canada popular writer who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s....
   - A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
  A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
  
  A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is the most popular book by James De Mille. It was Serial ized posthumously and anonymously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888....
  
• 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....
   - Maiwa's Revenge
• Henry James
  Henry James
  
  Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
   - The Aspern Papers
  The Aspern Papers
  
  The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year....
  
• Princess Casamassima
• Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
   - The Man Who Would Be King
  The Man Who Would Be King
  
  "The Man Who Would Be King" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two Great Britain adventurers in British Raj, who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan....
  
• George MacDonald
  George MacDonald
  
  George MacDonald was a Scotland author, poet, and Christian minister.Though no longer well known, his works have inspired admiration in such notables as W....
   - The Elect Lady
  The Elect Lady
  
  The Elect Lady is an 1888 in literature novel by George MacDonald....
  
• Herman Melville
  Herman Melville
  
  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime....
   - John Marr and Other Sailors
• Octave Mirbeau
  Octave Mirbeau
  
  Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde....
  , L'Abbé Jules
• George A. Moore
• Confessions of a Young Man
• Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan
• Shardha Ram Phillauri
  Shardha Ram Phillauri
  
  Pandit Shardha Ram "Phillauri" was a Punjabi people missionary, social reformer, astrologer, and writer, best remembered for his contributions to Hindi literature and Punjabi literature....
   - Bhagyawati
  Bhagyawati
  
  Bhagyawati is an 1888 novel by Shardha Ram Phillauri. The book is now acknowledged as the first novel in Hindi.Bhagyawati is believed to have been written mainly in Amritsar and was first published in 1888....
  
• Raul Pompéia
  Raul Pompéia
  
  Raul Pomp?ia was a Brazil writer, who was born and died in Rio de Janeiro . He is considered a Naturalism author, with his main literary work being O Ateneu....
   - O Ateneu
  O Ateneu
  
  O Ateneu is a novel written by Brazilian author Raul Pomp?ia in 1888, which it is considered one of the most prominent examples of Brazilian Literary realism and Naturalism ....
  
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - Os Maias
  Os Maias
  
  Os Maias: episodios da vida romantica is a realist novel by the Portuguese author Jos? Maria de E?a de Queiroz, also known under the modernized spelling E?a de Queir?s....
  
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
  Henryk Sienkiewicz
  
  Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Poland journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."...
   - Pan Wolodyjowski
  Fire in the Steppe
  
  Fire in the Steppe is a historical novel by the Poland author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1888. It is the third volume in a series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," preceded by With Fire and Sword and The Deluge ....
  
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
   - The Black Arrow
  The Black Arrow
  
  The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by the Scotland author Robert Louis Stevenson, which can be classed genre-wise as a historical adventure novel and a romance ....
  
• 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 ....
   - Family Without a Name
  Family Without a Name
  
  Family Without a Name is a 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada....
   (Famille-sans-nom)
• Two Years' Vacation
  Two Years' Vacation
  
  Two Years' Vacation is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888 in literature. The story tells of the fortunes of a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island in the Oceania, and of their struggles to overcome adversity....
  
• Lew Wallace
  Lew Wallace
  
  Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union Army general in the American Civil War, United States statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ....
   - The Boyhood of Christ
• Mary Augusta Ward - Robert Elsmere
  Robert Elsmere
  
  Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mary Augusta Ward published in 1888 in literature. It was immediately successful, quickly selling over a million copies and gaining the admiration of Henry James....
  

New drama

• Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt
  
  Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas....
   - L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose
• Henrik Ibsen
  Henrik Ibsen
  
  Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Nineteenth-century theatre Norway playwright of realism drama and poet. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theatre....
   - The Lady from the Sea
  The Lady from the Sea
  
  For the painting, see Edvard MunchThe Lady from the Sea is a Play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen....
  
• August Strindberg - Miss Julie
  Miss Julie
  
  Miss Julie is a Naturalism play written in 1888 by August Strindberg dealing with social class, love/lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among them....
  

Non-fiction

• Joseph Bertrand - Calcul des probabilités
• John D. Billings - Hard Tack and Coffee
  Hard Tack and Coffee
  
  Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery Battery in the American Civil War....
  
• Helena Blavatsky - The Secret Doctrine
  The Secret Doctrine
  
  The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, is Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's magnum opus....
  

Births

• January 24 - Vicki Baum
  Vicki Baum
  
  Hedwig Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel , one of her first international successes.Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family....
  , writer (died 1960
  1960 in literature
  
  The year 1960 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• April 26 - Anita Loos
  Anita Loos
  
  Anita Loos , was an acclaimed United States screenwriter, playwright and author. On pronouncing her name, "The family has always used the correct French pronunciation which is lohse....
  , novelist, screenwriter (d. 1981
  1981 in literature
  
  The year 1981 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• July 23 - Raymond Chandler
  Raymond Chandler
  
  Raymond Thornton Chandler was an United States crime fiction, who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private eye story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre....
  , novelist, screenwriter (d. 1959
  1959 in literature
  
  The year 1959 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• September 26 - T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  
  'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
  , poet, playwright (d. 1965
  1965 in literature
  
  The year 1965 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• October 14 - Katherine Mansfield
  Katherine Mansfield
  
  Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction from New Zealand who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield....
   short story writer (d. 1923
  1923 in literature
  
  The year 1923 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• October 16 - Eugene O'Neill
  Eugene O'Neill
  
  Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature. His plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of Realism , associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg....
  , playwright (d. 1953
  1953 in literature
  
  The year 1953 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa
  
  Fernando Ant?nio Nogueira Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda....
  , Portuguese
  Portugal
  
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
   writer (d. 1935
  1935 in literature
  
  The year 1935 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events*Penguin Books publishes the first "paperback" book.*W....
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Deaths

• March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   novelist (born 1832
  1832 in literature
  
  The year 1832 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• April 15 - Matthew Arnold
  Matthew Arnold
  
  Matthew Arnold was an England poet, and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold , literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator....
  , poet (b. 1822
  1822 in literature
  
  The year 1822 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• May 12 - Edward Lear
  Edward Lear
  
  Edward Lear was an England artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limerick , a form that he popularised....
  , poet (b. 1812
  1812 in literature
  
  The year 1812 in literature involved some significant events....
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• August 9 - Charles Cros
  Charles Cros
  
  Charles Cros was a France poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France, 35 km to the East of Carcassonne.Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer....
  , French
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
   poet (b. 1842
  1842 in literature
  
  The year 1842 in literature involved some significant new books....
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• August 20 - Henry Richard
  Henry Richard
  
  Rev. Henry Richard MP , the Apostle of Peace was a Congregational minister and Wales Member of Parliament 1868-88. The son of the Rev. Ebenezer Richard , a Calvinism Methodist minister, Henry Richard is chiefly known as an advocate of peace and international arbitration, having been Secretary of the Peace Society for forty years ....
  , political writer (b. 1812
  1812 in literature
  
  The year 1812 in literature involved some significant events....
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• September 24 - Karl von Prantl
  Karl von Prantl
  
  Carl von Prantl was a Germans Philosophy and Philology.He was born at Landsberg on the Lech. In 1843 he became doctor of philosophy at Munich Observatory, where he was made professor in 1859....
  , philosopher (b. 1820
  1820 in literature
  
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• December 8 - Frederick Apthorp Paley
  Frederick Apthorp Paley
  
  Frederick Apthorp Paley , was an England classical scholar.Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire, he was the grandson of William Paley, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge ....
  , scholar (b. 1815
  1815 in literature
  
  The year 1815 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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• December 23 - Laurence Oliphant
  Laurence Oliphant
  
  Laurence Oliphant , was a United Kingdom author, international traveller, diplomacy and mysticism. Best known for his 1870 satirical novel Piccadilly , he spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris....
  , travel writer (b. 1829
  1829 in literature
  
  The year 1829 in literature involved some significant events and new books....
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Awards

• Newdigate prize
  Newdigate prize
  
  Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize is awarded to students of the University of Oxford for Best Composition in English language verse by an undergraduate who has been admitted to Oxford within the previous four years....
   - Arthur Waugh
  Arthur Waugh
  
  Arthur Waugh was an England author, literary critic, and publisher....