1885 in literature

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The year 1885 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

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

Events

February 18 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time
May 19 - Revised Version Old Testament published.
Thomas Hardy moves to Max Gate.
John Ormsby's English translation of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote is published. For many years it is regarded as the most accurate translation of the novel.

New books

Hall Caine
- She's All the World to Me
- The Shadow of a Crime
Lewis Carroll - A Tangled Tale
H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
William Dean Howells - Rise of Sylas Lapham
Richard Jefferies - After London
Jerome K. Jerome - On the Stage—and Off
Guy de Maupassant - Bel-Ami
George Meredith - Diana of the Crossways
Daniel Owen - Rhys Lewis
Walter Pater - Marius the Epicurean
Robert Louis Stevenson - Prince Otto
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jules Vallés - Jacques Vingtras
Jules Verne - Mathias Sandorf
Émile Zola - Germinal
Sir Richard Burton - The Arabian Nights

Poetry

See 1885 in poetry

Non-fiction

Anténor Firmin - De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (On the Equality of Human Races)

Births

January 16 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese vernacular writer (d. 1967)
February 7 - Sinclair Lewis, novelist (d. 1951)
February 21 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist and screenwriter (d. 1957)
March 6 - Ring Lardner, writer (d. 1933)
May 2 - Hedda Hopper, columnist (d. 1966)
September 11 - D. H. Lawrence, novelist and short-story writer (d. 1930)
October 3 - Sophie Treadwell, dramatist and journalist (d. 1970)
October 11 - François Mauriac, novelist (d. 1970)
October 30 - Ezra Pound, poet (d. 1972)
December 8 - Kenneth Roberts, novelist (d. 1957)

Deaths

February 14 – Jules Vallés, French writer (b. 1832)
April 8 - Susanna Moodie, English-born author of "Canadiana" (b. 1803)
April 18 - Marc Monnier, author and translator (b. 1827)
May 22 - Victor Hugo, poet and novelist (b. 1802)
June 18 - Louis Segond, theologian (b. 1810)
July 13 - Augusto Vera, philosopher (b. 1813)
September 18 - John Campbell Shairp, critic (b. 1819)
November 29 - Anne Gilchrist, critic and biographer (b. 1828)