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The year 1888 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

• Grant Allen - The Devil's Die
  • The White Man's Foot
• Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward
• Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery Under Arms
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Fatal Three
• James De Mille - A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
• H. Rider Haggard - Maiwa's Revenge
• Henry James - The Aspern Papers
  • Princess Casamassima
• Rudyard Kipling - The Man Who Would Be King
• George MacDonald - The Elect Lady
• Herman Melville - John Marr and Other Sailors
• Octave Mirbeau, L'Abbé Jules
• George A. Moore
  • Spring Days--A Prelude to Don Juan
• Shardha Ram Phillauri - Bhagyawati
• Raul Pompéia - O Ateneu
• José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - Os Maias
• Henryk Sienkiewicz - Pan Wołodyjowski
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow
• Jules Verne - Family Without a Name (Famille-sans-nom)
  • Two Years' Vacation
• Lew Wallace - The Boyhood of Christ
• Mary Augusta Ward - Robert Elsmere

[edit] New drama

• Sarah Bernhardt - L'Aveu, drame en un acte en prose
• Henrik Ibsen - The Lady from the Sea
• August Strindberg - Miss Julie

[edit] Non-fiction

• Joseph Bertrand - Calcul des probabilités
• John D. Billings - Hard Tack and Coffee
• Helena Blavatsky - The Secret Doctrine

[edit] Births

• January 24 - Vicki Baum, writer (died 1960)
• April 26 - Anita Loos, novelist, screenwriter (d. 1981)
• July 23 - Raymond Chandler, novelist, screenwriter (d. 1959)
• September 26 - T. S. Eliot, poet, playwright (d. 1965)
• October 14 - Katherine Mansfield short story writer (d. 1923)
• October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, playwright (d. 1953)
• Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935)

[edit] Deaths

• March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (born 1832)
• April 15 - Matthew Arnold, poet (b. 1822)
• May 12 - Edward Lear, poet (b. 1812)
• August 9 - Charles Cros, French poet (b. 1842)
• August 20 - Henry Richard, political writer (b. 1812)
• September 24 - Karl von Prantl, philosopher (b. 1820)
• December 8 - Frederick Apthorp Paley, scholar (b. 1815)
• December 23 - Laurence Oliphant, travel writer (b. 1829)

[edit] Awards

• Newdigate prize - Arthur Waugh