1889 in literature
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The year 1889 in literature involved some significant new books.
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Events [edit]
- English publisher Henry Vizetelly is prosecuted in London, fined and imprisoned for obscenity for his English language translations of Émile Zola's works.
- Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, with three more by 1896.
New books [edit]
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il piacere
- Herman Bang - Tine
- Wilkie Collins
- Blind Love (unfinished)
- The Legacy of Cain
- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett - New Amazonia
- Marie Corelli - Ardath
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- George Gissing - The Nether World
- H. Rider Haggard - Cleopatra
- Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
- George A. Moore - Mike Fletcher
- Molly Elliot Seawell - Hale-Weston
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Master of Ballantrae
- Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Wrong Box
- Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
- Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Bertha von Suttner - Die Waffen nieder!
- Jules Verne - The Purchase of the North Pole
- Julius Vogel - Anno Domini 2000 - A Woman's Destiny
- Edgar Wallace - The Dark Eyes Of London
New drama [edit]
- Anton Chekhov - A Marriage Proposal
- Maurice Maeterlinck - Princess Maleine
- Leo Tolstoy - The Fruits of Enlightenment
Poetry [edit]
Non-fiction [edit]
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - The Voice of the Silence
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk - Positive Theory of Capital
Births [edit]
- March 1 - Kanoko Okamoto, Japanese novelist and poet (died 1939)
- April 7 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
- June 23 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (died 1966)
- July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer (died 1963)
- July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (died 1970)
- August 5 - Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet (died 1973)
- September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (died 1974)
- September 25 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (died 1930)
- September 26 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (died 1976)
- October 18 - Fannie Hurst, American novelist (died 1968)
- November 12 - DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (died 1981)
Deaths [edit]
- January 17 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian writer (born 1832)
- April 23 - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French novelist (born 1808)
- June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (born 1844)
- June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (born 1850)
- August 5 - Fanny Lewald, German novelist (born 1811)
- August 19 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French Symbolist writer (born 1838)
- September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (born 1824)
- October 25 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (born 1820)
- November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet (b. date uncertain)
- December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet (born 1839)
- December 12 - Robert Browning, English poet (born 1812)
