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The year 1893 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards

[edit] Events

• André Gide begins his travels in North Africa.
• Jerome K. Jerome founds the magazine To-Day.

[edit] New books

• Byron A. Brooks - Earth Revisited
• Rhoda Broughton - A Beginner
• Hall Caine - Cap'n Davey's Honeymoon
• Mary Cholmondeley - Diana Tempest
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Refugees
• Marie Corelli - Barabbas
• Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (self-published in 1893, published as a book in 1896)
• Anatole France - At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Jane Field
• George Gissing - The Odd Women
• Sarah Grand - The Heavenly Twins
• H. Rider Haggard - Montezuma's Daughter
• Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant - Unveiling a Parallel
• Henry Olerich - A Cityless and Countryless World
• Bolesław Prus - The New Woman (Emancypantki)
• Addison Peale Russell - Sub-Coelum
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Catriona
• Ivan Vazov - Under the Yoke
• Jules Verne - The Castle of the Carpathians
  • Claudius Bombarnac
  • Foundling Mick
• Lew Wallace - The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
• Emile Zola - Le Docteur Pascal

[edit] New drama

• Herman Heijermans - Dora Kremer
• Maurice Maeterlinck - Pelléas et Mélisande
• Oscar Wilde - A Woman of No Importance

[edit] Poetry

• Gabriele D'Annunzio - Odi Navali
• Eric Stenbock - The shadow of death : poems, songs, and sonnets

[edit] Non-fiction

• Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, 1st edition
• Henry James - Essays in London and Elsewhere

[edit] Births

• January - Maria Jolas, literary publisher (d. 1987)
• January 13 - Clark Ashton Smith, poet and short story writer (d. 1961)
• March 18 - Wilfred Owen, war poet (d. 1918)
• April 9 - Victor Gollancz, publisher (d. 1967)
• June 13 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (d. 1957)
• August 22 - Dorothy Parker, poet, journalist and wit (d. 1967)
• October 15 - Saunders Lewis, poet, dramatist and critic (d. 1985)
• November 14 - Carlo Emilio Gadda, author (d. 1973)

[edit] Deaths

• April 19 - John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist (b. 1840)
• July 6 - Guy de Maupassant, novelist and short story writer (b. 1850)
• November 12 - Baroness Tautphoeus, novelist (b. 1807)

[edit] Awards