1889 in literature
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The year 1889 in literature involved some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West, with three more by 1896.
[edit] New books
- Gabriele D'Annunzio - Il piacere
- Wilkie Collins - Blind Love (unfinished)
- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett - New Amazonia
- Marie Corelli - Ardath
- Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke
- 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 - Princess Maleine
- Leo Tolstoy - The Fruits of Enlightenment
[edit] Poetry
[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 (died 1963)
- July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (d. 1970)
- September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (d. 1974)
[edit] Deaths
- January 17 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian writer (born 1832)
- April 23 - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist (b. 1808)
- June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet (b. 1844)
- June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
- August 5 - Fanny Lewald, novelist (b. 1811)
- August 19 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, symbolist writer (b. 1838)
- September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist (b. 1824)
- October 25 - Émile Augier, dramatist (b. 1820)
- November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet (b. date uncertain)
- December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet (b. 1839)
- December 12 - Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812)
