1874 in literature

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

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

• L'Après-midi d'un faune - Stéphane Mallarmé
• Ninety-Three - Victor Hugo
• Beauchamp's Career - George Meredith
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
• La Conquête de Plassans - Émile Zola
• Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• Le drageoir aux epices - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• The Frozen Deep and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins
• Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
• Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life - Anthony Trollope
• The Impending Sword - Edmund Yates
• Johnny Ludlow - Mrs. Henry Wood
• Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
• Lost For Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
• A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - Amelia Edwards
• Other People's Money - Emile Gaboriau
• The Pirate City - RM Ballantyne
• Prudence Palfrey - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• The Rising Sun - William Wells Brown
• A Rose in June - Margaret Oliphant
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert

[edit] Non-fiction

• John William Draper - A History of the Conflict between Religion and Science

[edit] Births

• January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (+ 1958)
• January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (+ 1965)
• February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer (+ 1929)
• February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (+ 1946)
• February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (+ 1925)
• February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author.
• March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet (+ 1945)
• March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (+ 1963)
• May 29 - G. K. Chesterton (+ 1936)
• November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery

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[edit] Awards