1889 in literature

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The year 1889 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

• Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, between 1889-1896.

[edit] New books

• Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il piacere
• Wilkie Collins
  • Blind Love {unfinished)
  • The Legacy of Cain
• Marie Corelli - Ardath
• Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Micah Clarke
  • The Mystery of Cloomber
• 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
• Jules Verne - The Purchase of the North Pole
• Julius Vogel - Anno Domini 2000 - A Woman's Destiny
• Edgar Wallace - The Dark Eyes Of London

[edit] New drama

• Anton Chekhov - A Marriage Proposal
• Maurice Maeterlinck - La princesse Maleine

[edit] Poetry

• William Butler Yeats - The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems

[edit] Non-fiction

• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - The Voice of the Silence
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk - Positive Theory of Capital

[edit] Births

• July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer
• July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970)
• September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (+ 1974)

[edit] Deaths

• January 17 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian writer
• April 23 - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist
• June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
• June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet
• August 5 - Fanny Lewald, novelist
• August 19 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, symbolist writer
• September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist
• October 25 - Émile Augier, dramatist
• November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet
• December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet
• December 12 - Robert Browning, English poet

[edit] Awards