1885 in literature
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The year 1885 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] New books
- Hall Caine
- 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
[edit] Poetry
- See 1885 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Anténor Firmin - De l'Égalité des Races Humaines (On the Equality of Human Races)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
- date unknown
- Anne Gilchrist, critic and biographer (b. 1828)
